[73] Maury, in Revue Archéologique, I. p. 502.

[74] According to Pouqueville (Voyage de la Grèce, II. p. 170) the rosalia was formerly celebrated both at Parga in Epirus and Palermo in Sicily. The festival at Athens falls on Easter Tuesday, and a large number of peasants come in from the country to attend it.

[75] Clem. Alex. Protrept. § 30.

[76] See J. M. Neale, History of the Holy Eastern Church, p. 1042.

[77] See below, pp. [66] ff.

[78] Καμπόυρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθ. III. p. 160.

[79] The Cyclades, p. 319.

[80] B. Schmidt, Das Volksleben der Neugriechen, p. 28.

[81] Travels in Crete, vol. I. p. 250.

[82] Schmidt (Volksleben der Neugr. p. 31) records also the phrase κατουράει ὁ θεός, parallel with Strepsiades’ joke (Ar. Nub. 373) πρότερον τὸν Δί’ ἀληθῶς ᾤμην διὰ κοσκίνου οὐρεῖν.