nluckily, does not enable us to determine its date or
_provenance_. The book is a mine of mouse-lore.

{110b} Colden, History of the Five Nations, p. 15 (1727).

{110c} Onomast., ix. 6, segm. 84, p. 1066.

{110d} De Witte says Pollux was mistaken here. In the Revue
Numismatique, N.S. iii., De Witte publishes coins of Alexandria, the more
ancient Hamaxitus, in the Troad. The Sminthian Apollo is represented
with his bow, and the mouse on his hand. Other coins show the god with
the mouse at his foot, or show us the lyre of Apollo supported by mice. A
bronze coin in the British Museum gives Apollo with the mouse beside his
foot.

{111a} Spanheim, ad Fl. Joseph., vi. I, p. 312.

{111b} Della Rel., p. 174.

{111c} Herodotus, ii. 141.

{112a} Liebrecht (Zur Volkskunde, p. 13, quoting Journal Asiatique, 1st
series, 3, 307) finds the same myth in Chinese annals. It is not a god,
however, but the king of the rats, who appears to the distressed monarch
in his dream. Rats then gnaw the bowstrings of his enemies. The
invaders were Turks, the rescued prince a king of Khotan. The king
raised a temple, and offered sacrifice--to the rats?

{112b} Herodotos, p. 204.

{113a} Wilkinson, iii. 294, quoting the Ritual xxxiii.: 'Thou devourest
the abominable rat of Ra, or the sun.'

{113b} Mr. Loftie has kindly shown me a green mouse containing the
throne-name of Thothmes III. The animals thus used as substitutes for
scarabs were also sacred, as the fish, rhinoceros, fly, all represented
in Mr. Loftie's collection. See his Essay of Scarabs, p. 27. It may be
admitted that, in a country where Cats were gods, the religion of the
Mouse must have been struggling and oppressed.

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{114a} Strabo, xiii. 604.

{114b} Eustathius on Iliad, i. 39.

{114c} A Strange and True Relation of the Prodigious Multitude of Mice,
1670.

{115a} Journal of Philol., xvii. p. 96.

{115b} Leviticus xi. 29.

{116} Samuel i. 5, 6.

{117a} Zool. Myth, ii. 68.

{117b} Melusine, N.S. i.

{118a} De Iside et Osiride, lxxvi.

{118b} This hypothesis does not maintain that totemism prevailed in
Greece during historic times. Though Plutarch mentions an Athenian
[Greek], the Ioxidae, which claimed descent from and revered asparagus,
it is probable that genuine totemism had died out of Greece many hundreds
of years before even Homer's time. But this view is not inconsistent
with the existence of sur