[22]

... "blending every colour into one,
Just like a black eye in a recent scuffle."—Byron.

[23] The πέπλος was an ample shawl serving for a robe; those of the most splendid hues and curious workmanship were imported from Tyre and Sidon.—See Iliad, vi. 289.

[24] τὸ ἕρμαιον.

[25] πpoτέλεια γάμων. These consisted of sacrifices and offerings made to the θεoὶ γαμήλιοι, or divinities who presided over marriage; the sacrificer was the father of the bride elect.

[26] οἱωνῶν βασιλεὺς. Æsch. Ag. 113.

[27]

..., "ministrum fulminis alitem
Cui rex Deorum regnum in aves vagas
Permisit."—Hor. iv. Od. iv. i.

[28] "nunquam visæ flagrabat amore puellæ."—Juv. iv. 14.

[29] Jacobs observes that this law of Byzantium is purely the invention of Tatius; one resembling it existed at Athens.