[6] "If a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given her for a covering."—1 Cor. xi. 15.
Apuleius, Met. B. ii. has a remarkable passage illustrative of the indispensableness of a fine head of hair to constitute perfect female beauty. "Si cujuslibet eximiæ pulcherrimæque feminæ caput capillo spoliaveris et faciem nativâ specie nudaveris, licet illa cœlo dejecta, mari edita, fluctibus educata, licet, inquam Venus ipsa fuerit, licet omni Gratiarum choro stipata, et toto Cupidinum populo comitata et baltheo suo cincta, cinnama fragrans et balsama rorans, calva processerit, placere non poterit nec Vulcano suo."
[7] See the beginning of B. iv. where Diana enjoins upon Leucippe the preservation of her chastity.
[8] ὁ τῆς Ἀθηνᾰς αἰλὸς.
[9] μεταπηδᾶ—χορεύει.
[10] Throughout this description of the syrinx, the Greek text is very corrupt: "locus graviter afflictus," is the expression of Jacobs, who gives four closely printed octavo pages of notes, to elucidate its difficulties. The translator has endeavoured to give, what (after a comparison of the notes) appeared to him the true sense.
[11] See the same legend, towards the end of Longus, B. ii.
[12] τoῦ τόπου πνεῦμα ἔχοντος μουσικὸν εἰς τὸν σύριγγα ταμιεῖον.
[13] "sorbitio—dira cicutæ."—Persius, S. iv. 2.
[14] By the Roman law, a woman convicted of adultery was mulcted in half her dowry (dos) and the third part of her property (bona), and banished to some miserable island, such as Seriphos.—Dict. of Grk. and Rom. Antiq.