[474]. Reinach, i. 235 = Naples 3255.
[475]. See p. 214.
[476]. Adv. Leoch. 1086, 1089.
[477]. Cf. B.M. Cat. of Sculpture, i. p. 297.
[478]. See note on p. [132] above. The custom seems to have been specially in favour in the fourth century B.C.
[479]. E.g. B.M. D 65, 70–1; J.H.S. xix. pl. 2. On the subject generally, see ibid. p. 169 ff.
[480]. Fig. [20] = F 93, a Lucanian hydria in the British Museum, is a very fine instance, several of the vases being represented with painted subjects. Among them is a Panathenaic amphora (see above, p. [132]), on which is depicted a chariot-race.
[481]. Il. xxiii. 253.
[482]. Q. Smyrn. iii. 737.
[483]. It no doubt suggested Tennyson’s “Two handfuls of white dust, shut in an urn of brass.” Cf. l. 1142 (κήτει).