[28] A favourite amusement with lovers:—
"Malo me Galatea petit, lasciva puella."—Virg. Ec. iii. 64.
"Βάλλει καὶ μάλοισι τὸν αἰπόλον ἁ Κλεαρίστα."
Theoc. Idyl. v. 36.
"Her cheeks so rare a white was on,
No daisy makes comparison,
(Who sees them is undone);
For streaks of red are mingled there,
Such as are on a Cath'rine pear,
(The side that's next the sun)."—Suckling.
[30] Xenophon (Anab. iv. 8, 20), gives an account of the Greeks in their retreat eating new honey; they were for a time, he says, frantic, were seized with vomiting and purging, and were unable to stand upon their feet; some died from its effects.
.... "Pan
Pinea semiferi capitis velamina quassans."—Lucret. iv. 589.
Pan fell in love with the nymph Pitys; his rival Boreas blew the nymph from a rock and killed her. Pan, unable to save, changed her into a pine tree—πίτυς.
[32] ἡμιoλία, a light vessel with one and a half banks of oars.