[328]. Callim. ii. 4.
[329]. Paus. i. 18. 5. Cf. Keightley, Mythol. p. 193. In Arcadia, also, this goddess was so closely draped that nothing was visible but the countenance, fingers, and toes.—Paus. vii. 23. 5.
[330]. The duties of an accoucheuse are briefly enumerated by Max. Tyr. Dissert. xxviii. p. 333. Cf. Pignor. de Serv. 184.
[331]. Hygin. Fab. 274.
[332]. De Re Rust. ii. 10.
[333]. Var. Lect. xxxiv. 2.
[334]. Meurs. Græc. Fer. p. 260. sqq. Censor. de Die Natali. c. 11.
[335]. Antiq. ii. 320.
[336]. Coray, ad Hippoc. de Aër. et Loc. ii. 309.
[337]. Even so early as the age of Montaigne the necessity of some change was felt. “Les liaisons et emmaillottements des enfans ne sont non plus necessaires.” He then alludes to the practice of the Spartan nurses.—Essais, ii. 12. However, in certain habits of body, swaddling is not merely useful, but necessary: as Hippocrates remarks in his account of the Scythians (de Aër. et Loc. § 101), and as his able commentator, Coray, confirms by example. ubi sup.