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

by James Augustus St. John

[771]. Plat. de Legg. vii. t. viii. p. 55. Bekk. Xen. Conv. vii. 5.

[772]. Xen. Conviv. ix. 1–7.

[773]. Athen. xiv. 2.

[774]. Eurip. Fragm. Melanipp. 20.

[775]. Athen. xiv. 2.

[776]. Eustath. ad Iliad. δ. p. 337. 53. Etym. Mag. 277. 24. Meurs. Græc. Feriat. ii. 96.

[777]. Athen. xiv. 3.

[778]. Among the Etruscans these ladles were of bronze, and of extremely elegant form, the point ending in a swan’s or duck’s head.

[779]. The proceedings of this person were governed by a code of laws, the making and reformation of which employed the wits of no less personages than Xenophanes, Spensippos, and Aristotle. Athen. i. 5.

[780]. Horat. Od. ii. 7. 25.