The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)

by James Augustus St. John

[33]. On their anxiety to discover the designs of the Fates in this respect, see Schol. Aristoph. Lysist. 597.

[34]. Goguet, Orig. des Loix, iii. 127, sqq.

[35]. Demosth. pro Phorm. § 8–10.

[36]. Opera et Dies, 405.

[37]. Theocrit. Eidyll. xxvii. 36.

[38]. Theocrit. Eidyll. ii. 66, ibique Schol.

[39]. Schol. Pind. Pyth. iv. ap. Meurs. Græc. Fer. p. 238.

[40]. Suid. v. προτέλεια. t. ii. p. 629. v. Æschyl. Eumen. 799. Cf. Cœl. Rhodig. xxviii. 24.

[41]. Poll. iii. 38. Schol. Pind. Pyth. x. 31. Aristoph. Thesmoph. 982. Kust.

[42]. Poll. iii. 38. ibique Comm. p. 529, seq. Cf. Spanh. Observ. in Callim. 149, 507. The youth usually cut off their hair on reaching the age of puberty. Athen. xiii. 83.