The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 1 (of 3)

by James Augustus St. John

[764]. Paus. i. 32. 1.

[765]. Paus. iii. 20. 4. vii. 18. 13. viii. 17. 3.

[766]. Aristot. Hist. Anim. ix. 6. viii. 17. vi. 30. Ælian de Nat. Anim. vi. 3. Cf. Buffon, Hist. Nat. t. viii. p. 27.

[767]. This now we find is the food of swine. “Leaving Pyrgo (in Bœotia), we advanced along the plain to Eremo Castro; in our road we observed droves of pigs tearing up the ground for the roots of the cuckow-pint (arum maculatum) which was called by the swineherds δρακοντίο.”—Sibth. in Walp. i. 65.

[768]. Nat. Hist. viii. 54.

[769]. Aristot. Hist. Anim. viii. 5.

[770]. Ælian. de Nat. Anim. vi. 6. Aristot. ut sup.

[771]. Aristot. Hist. Anim. ix. 6. Ælian. de Nat. Anim. vi. 6.

[772]. Xen. Cyneg. xi. 1.

[773]. Pollux (v. 14.) observes that in his time lions were chiefly found in mountainous tracts as wild boars were in marshes and pardales in the depths of the woods.