[1] An allusion to the custom of choosing a husband in the Svayamvara ceremony, by throwing a garland on the neck of the favoured suitor.
[2] Dr. Kern would read ásata.
[3] Compare Book III of the novel of Achilles Tatius, c. 5.
[4] Cp. Enmathius’ novel of Hysminias and Hysmine, Book IX, ch. 4.
Ἐπὶ δὴ τούτοις πᾶσιν ὀφθαλμὸς ἥλατό μου ὁ δεξιὸς, καὶ ἦν μοι τὸ σημε͂ιον ἀγαθὸν, καὶ τὸ προμάντευμα δεξιώτατον
See also Theocritus III, 37.
ἅλλεται ὀφθαλμός μευ ὁ δεξιός· ἦ ῥά γ’ ἰδησῶ
αὐτάν;
Where Fritsche quotes Plant. Pseudol. 1.1.105. Brand in his Popular Antiquities, Vol. III, p. 172, quotes the above passage from Theocritus, and a very apposite one from Dr. Nathaniel Home’s Demonologie—“If their ears tingle, they say they have some enemies abroad that doe or are about to speake evill of them: so, if their right eye itcheth, then it betokens joyful laughter.”