by a mule, and all other beasts of burthen. No one is to enter the temenos with sandals or any article made of hog's leather; any one transgressing this prohibition will have to purify the Hieron and temenos, and to offer sacrifices, or to be liable to a prosecution for impiety, ἀσέβεια. Any one introducing sheep into the sacred precinct must pay an obolos for each sheep. Any one who thinks proper may denounce such transgressors to the Mastroi.
The goddess Alektrona, whose sacred precinct is thus jealously guarded by this law, is evidently identical with Elektryonè, who, according to Diodoros, v. 56, was the daughter of the god Helios and the nymph Rhodos, and who, dying a virgin, was worshipped with heroic honours by the Rhodians, According to Diodoros, Elektryonè had seven brothers called the Heliadæ, two of whom, Kerkaphos and Ochimos, settled in the territory of lalysos, and there founded the strong city of Achaia, reigning there in succession. Kerkaphos, who succeeded his brother in the kingdom, had three sons, Lindos, Ialysos, Kamiros, each of whom gave his name to the city which he founded. The name Alektrona or Elektryonè, as Diodoros gives it, is evidently derived from the same root as ἠλέκτωρ the name for the sun in Homer, Ἠλεκτρυών, ἤλεκτρον, Ἠλέκτρα, ἀλεκτρυών, ἀλέκτωρ. See Gr. Curtius, 'Grundziige,' 4th edition, p. 136, No. 24.
l. 3, τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ τὸ τέμενος. Here these two sacred precincts are clearly distinguished. The Hieron is usually considered to be the sacred ground round the temple ναός, corresponding with the Close of a cathedral. The temenos was probably an outer precinct.
l. 7, λίθου λάρτου. The word λάρτος is unknown to
