ed plants with a needle, and to destroy the
eggs whenever they are observed.

Descriptive lists of the best varieties may be had from all the leading
nurserymen.

CARNEA, one of the great national festivals of Sparta, held in honour of
Apollo Carneus. Whether Carneus (or Carnus) was originally an old
Peloponnesian divinity subsequently identified with Apollo, or merely
an "emanation" from him, is uncertain; but there seems no reason to
doubt that Carneus means "the god of flocks and herds" (Hesychius, s.v.
[Greek: Karnos]), in a wider sense, of the harvest and the vintage. The
chief centre of his worship was Sparta, where the Carnea took place
every year from the 7th to the 15th of the month Carneus (=Metageitnion,
August). During this period all military operations were suspended. The
Carnea appears to have been at once agrarian, military and piacular in
character. In the last aspect it is supposed to commemorate the death of
Carnus, an Acarnanian seer and favourite of Apollo, who, being suspected
of espionage, was slain by one of the Heraclidae during the passage of
the Dorians from Naupactus to Peloponnesus. By way of punishment, Apollo
visited the army with a pestilence, which only ceased after the
institution of the Carnea. The tradition is probably intended to explain
the sacrifice of an animal (perhaps a later substitute for a human
being) as the representative of the god.

The agrarian and military sides of the festival are clearly
distinguished. (1) Five unmarried youths ([Greek: Karneatai]) were
chosen by lot from each [tribe] for four years, to superintend the
proceedings, the officiating priest being called [Greek: agaetaes]
("leader"). A man decked with garlands (possibly the priest himself)
started running, pursued by a band of young men called [Greek:
stathulodromoi] ("running with bunches of grapes in their hands"); if he
was caught, it was a guarantee of good fortune to the city; if not, the
reverse. (2) In the second part of the festival nine tents were set up
in the country, in each of which nine citizens, representing the
phratries (or _obae_), feasted together in honour of the god (for huts
or booths extemporized as shelters compare the Jewish feast of
Tabernacles; and see W. Warde Fowler in _Classical Review_, March 1908,
on the country festival in Tibullus ii. 1). According to Demetrius of
Scepsis (in Athenaeus iv. 141), the Carnea was an imitation of life in
camp, and everything was done