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legend with a sacred oak. But it is possible that here, as elsewhereS
the oak had given place to the olive. In Pausanias' time a certain
Fig. 319- Fig. 320. Fig. 321.
wild-olive, growing near the sanctuary and known as the VVrithen
Olive, was held to be the tree in which Hippolytos' reins had got
Fig. 322.
entangled'. Ovid and Seneca speak of it as a mere stump :
^ Class. Rev. 1903 xvii. 273, ib. 1904 xviii. 82 n. 2, Folk-Lore 1904 xv. 298.
the
^ Paus. 2. 32. 10 ittX Qa.\a.