The Greek anchor determines not spring and winter but the custody of a god. Aphrodite, smitten with the infant Adonis, “hid in a chest unknown to the gods” and gave him to Persephone — and “when Persephone beheld him, she would not give him back” [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIV]. Impasse between goddesses becomes cosmic law: “The case being tried before Zeus, the year was divided into three parts” — one part Adonis’ own, the rest “with Persephone for one part, and with Aphrodite for the remainder” [ibid.]. Frazer’s note supplies the harsher variant: Calliope, arbitrating, ruled that “Adonis should spend half the year with each of them”, and Aphrodite in revenge had the arbiter’s son Orpheus torn to pieces [ibid., editor’s note]. Nothing on the served page says seasons: the calendar Thompson heard in it is the beautiful god’s alternation between underworld and love-goddess, the year carved as a custody settlement — readers should know the seasonal reading is the index’s inference, well founded but inferred. Of two apparatus rows, only this one resolves; the Indian and North American authorities are wholly unwired.