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Dodona was formerly subject to the Thesproti, as was the mountain Tomarus, or Tmarus, (both names are in use,) be low which the temple is situated. The tragic writers and Pindar give the epithet of Thesprotis to Dodona. It was said to be subject, in later times, to the Molotti. Those called by the poet Jove’s interpreters,ὺποθῆται. and described by him as men with unwashen feet, who slept on the ground, were, it is said called Tomuriτομοῦοͅοι. from Mount Tomarus, and the passage in the
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Odyssey containing the advice of Amphinomus to the suitors not to attack Telemachus before they had inquired of Jupiter is as follows, If the Tomuri of great Jove approve, I myself will kill him, and I will order all to join in the deed; but if the god forbid it, I command to withhold.Odys. xvi. 403. For it is better, it is asserted, to write Tomuriτομούοͅους. than Themistae,θέμιστας. because in no passage whatever are oracles called by the poet Themistae, this term being applied to decrees,βουλαί. or statutes and rules of civil government; and the persons are called Tomuri,τομούοͅους. which is the contracted form of Tomaruri,τομαοͅούοͅους. or guardians of Tomarus.
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In Homer, however, we must understand θέμιστες in a more simple sense, and, like βουλαί, by the figure Catachresis, as meaning commands and oracular injunctions as well as laws; for such is the import of this line: To listen toβουλὴν. the will of Jove, which comes forth from the lofty and verdant oak.
