Dr. Postgate in the
_Classical Quarterly_ for 1909, p. 127.

[997] Hor. _Sat._ ii. 3. 247.

[998] Festus, ed. Mueller, p. 377.

[999] Leviticus xxiii. 40-42. Cp. Plutarch, _Quaest.
conviv._ 4. 2. This was a feast of harvest and
first-fruits (Exodus xxiii. 16). Nehemiah viii. 13 foll.
gives a graphic account of the revival of this festival
after the captivity.

[1000] Athenaeus iv. 41. 8 F. Cp. Farnell, _Cults of the
Greek States_, vol. iv., p. 260.

[1001] Dittenberger, _Sylloge inscript._ (ed. 2), 653,
lines 34 foll. Cp. p. 200 (Teos).

[1002] Baeda, _Hist. eccl._ i. 30 (ed. Plummer). There
is a curious case of isolation in a hut in a process by
which the sacrificer of the _soma_ in the Vedic religion
becomes divine, quoted by Hubert et Mauss, _Melanges_,
p. 34. This may possibly afford a clue to the mystery.

[1003] _Religion of the Semites_, notes K and N at the
end of the volume.

[1004] See _e.g._ Frazer, _G. B._ ed. 2, index, _s.v._
"Seclusion."

[1005] It has occurred to me that the shedding of blood
in animal sacrifice may possibly be the reason in some
of these rites. The last words of the passage quoted
above from Baeda suggest this explanation in the case of
the Britons. In the first-fruits festivals the "killing
of the corn" may be a parallel cause of taboo. See _G.
B._ i. 372.

[1006] Du Pratz, translated in _G. B._ ii. 332 foll.

[1007] See _e.g._ Helbig, _Die Italiker in der Poebene_,
p. 50 foll. Lanciani, _Ruins and Excavations of Ancient
Rome_, p. 132. It is worth noting that in a passage
quoted by Helbig, Plutarch (_Numa_ 8) uses for some of
the most ancient Roman attempts at temple building the
same word by which he describes the booths at the feast
of tabernacles ([Greek: kaliades]).

[1008] Whether there was in later days any special
religious signification in the use of green foliage and
branches I will not undertake to say, but I have been
struck by the constant use of them in cases of
religious seclusion, even where the person is secluded
in some part of the house, and not outside it. See _e.g.
G. B._ ii. pp. 205-214.

[1009] Prof. Anwyl, _Celtic Religion_ (Constable's
series), p. 10. Mr. Baring-Gould told Mr. Anwyl that he
had seen in some of the Dartmoor circles central holes
which seeme