[638]. Vid. Schol. Arist. Eq. 949. Acharn. 1066.
[639]. Aristoph. Eq. 208.
[640]. Athen. ii. 19.
[641]. Aristoph. Eq. 422. Brunck.
[642]. Aristoph. Pac. 503.
[643]. Cf. Lucian. Amor. § 33.
[644]. Cf. Arist. Acharn. 166. Eq. 493. Athen. xiii. 22.
[645]. This is as good as the reply of an English labourer who, being reproached for babbling in his drink, replied, “Sir, I am like a hedgehog—when I’m wet I open.”
[646]. Hesiod. Oper. et Dies, 41. ed. Gœttling. Aristoph. Plut. 543. Brunck.—Lobeck. Aglaoph. p. 899.
[647]. The kernels of the stone-pine are brought to table in Turkey. They are very common in the kitchens of Aleppo.—Russell ap. Walp. Mem. i. 236.