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Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 35: A Monthly Magazine; March, 1921 They also worshiped in groves of trees, and looked upon the oak as the oldest tree. It was so common to erect altars and temples in groves, and to dedicate them to religious uses, that all sacred places, as we learn from Strabo, even those where no trees were to be seen, were called groves. The solitude of groves was regarded as creative of religious awe and reverence in the minds of the people. Pliny says that in groves the very silence of the place became the object of adoration. Ovid says: A darksome grove of oak was spread out near, Whose gloom oppressive said: A god dwells here. The number three was commonly observed in the religious cere monies of the Greeks. Thus, in Ovid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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