The servitude of Apollo is traditionally associated with his
      slaughter of the Cyclopes, not of the dragon. But see my note on
      Pausanias, ii. 7. 7 (vol. ii. pp. 53 _sqq._).

  201 W. H. Roscher's _Lexikon d. griech. und roem. Mythologie_, ii. 830,
      838, 839. On an Etruscan mirror the scene of Cadmus's combat with
      the dragon is surrounded by a wreath of laurel (Roscher, _op. cit._
      ii. 862). Mr. A. B. Cook was the first to call attention to these
      vase-paintings in confirmation of my view that the Festival of the
      Laurel-bearing celebrated the destruction of the dragon by Cadmus
      (_Folklore_, xv. (1904) p. 411, note 224).

  202 Pausanias, ix. 10. 2; K. O. Mueller, _Die Dorier_,2 i. 237 _sq._

  203 For evidence of the wide diffusion of the myth and the drama, see
      Th. Schreiber, _Apollon Pythoktonos_, pp. 39-50. The Laurel-bearing
      Apollo was worshipped at Athens, as we know from an inscription
      carved on one of the seats in the theatre. See E. S. Roberts and E.
      A. Gardner, _Introduction to Greek Epigraphy_, ii. (Cambridge, 1905)
      p. 467, No. 247.

  M60 Both at Delphi and at Thebes the dragon seems to have guarded the
      oracular spring and the oracular tree. The crown of laurel and the
      crown of oak. The Festival of Crowning at Delphi originally
      identical with the Pythian games.

  204 Apollodorus, iii. 4. 3; Schol. on Homer, _Iliad_, ii. 494;
      Pausanias, ix. 10. 5; _Homeric Hymn to Apollo_, 300 _sq._ The writer
      of the Homeric hymn merely says that Apollo slew the Delphic dragon
      at a spring; but Pausanias (x. 6. 6) tells us that the beast guarded
      the oracle.

  205 Pausanias, x. 8. 9, x. 24. 7, with my notes; Ovid, _Amores_, i. 15.
      35 _sq._; Lucian, _Jupiter tragoedus_, 30; Nonnus, _Dionys._ iv. 309
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