[751]. Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 825.

[752]. John, xiii. 23. On the cushions, of which there was a great variety, see Pollux, vi. 9, where he reckons among them the ὑπηρέσιον, which Mitford confounds with the ἄσκωμα, or leathern bags which closed the row-port of war-galleys round the oar, to prevent the influx of sea-water.

[753]. Iliad, ω. 100.

[754]. Cf. Plut. Conv. Quæst. i. 3. Pet. Ciacon, De Triclin. p. 44.

[755]. Sympos. i. 2. 1.

[756]. Probably also the myttotos, a dish flavoured with garlic and rich spices, formed a part of this course. Schol. Aristoph. Acharn. 173. Vesp. 62.

[757]. Athen. i. 8. vii. 46. 68. 119. Arist. Hist. Anim. v. 5.

[758]. Pollux, vi. 77.

[759]. Athen. iv. 28. There was a kind of cheese, apparently much in use, imported from Gythion, in Laconia. Lucian. Diall. Hetair. xiv. 2.

[760]. Xenoph. Conv. i. 13, 14.