[1411]. Schol. Aristoph. Vesp. 480. Geop. xii. 1. 2.
[1412]. Geop. xii. 6. Pallad. i. 35. 16.
[1413]. Lucian. Luc. siv. Asin. § 43.
[1414]. Geop. ii. 37. 40.
[1415]. These were covered with plates of the lapis specularis, and furnished with wheels, that they might the more easily be moved in and out from under cover. Colum. De Re Rust. xi. 3. p. 461: see also Castell, Villas of the Ancients, p. 4.
[1416]. These are found growing at present even in the cemeteries. “Des melons d’eau qui végètent çà et là sur ces tombes abandonnées, resemblent, par leur forme et leur pâleur, à des crânes humains qu’on ne s’est pas donné la peine d’ensèvelir.” Chateaub. Itin. i. 27. These fruit are considered so innocent in the Levant as to be given to the sick in fevers. Chandler, i. p. 77.
[1417]. Colum. De Cult. Hortor. 234.
[1418]. Sch. Aristoph. Acharn. 494.
[1419]. Athen. iii. 1.
[1420]. Chandler, i. 317.