Note 80 — FIRST SECTION.
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According to Herodotus, bk. II. 51., the Greeks borrowed the Phallic ritual under the form of the Hermae (pillars of Hermes) from the Pelasgians, by which name according to Böttiger, “Kunstmythologie,” (Mythology of Art), p. 213, Phoenicians should be understood. Comp. Cicero, De Nat. Deorum bk. III. ch. 22., and Creuzer’s note on the passage.