[1699]. Hesiod. Opp. et Dies, 469, seq.
[1700]. Geop. ii. 28.
[1701]. Geop. ii. 2.
[1702]. Hesiod. Opp. et Dies, 443, sqq.
[1703]. Hesiod. Opp. et Dies, 442. “Vide Athenæum, quem Lanzius laudavit, iii. p. 114. e. hæc ex Philemone referentem: βλωμιλίους ἄρτους ὀνομάζεσθαι λέγει τοὺς ἔχοντας ἐντομάς, οὓς Ῥωμαῖοι, καδράτους λέγουσι. ὀκτάβλωμον Spohnius intelligit de servo celeriter edente. Minime verò. Panes rustici incisuras suas habent, ut servis omnibus æquas partes frangendo possis dirimere. v. Philostrat. Imagg. p. 95. 16. Jacobs.” Gœttling in loc. p. 173.
[1704]. Hesiod. Opp. et Dies, 46. Dickinson. Delphi Phœnicizantes, c. 10. p. 101, sqq.
[1705]. Scheffer. de Re Vehic. 186, seq. Schol. Aristoph. Nub. 449. The necks of these animals, when galled by the yoke, were cured by the leaves of black briony steeped in wine. Dioscor. iv. 185.
[1706]. Xenoph. Œconom. xvi. 13, seq. Cf. Schulz. Antiquitat. Rustic. § 7.
[1707]. Sibthorpe, in Walp. Mem. v. i. p. 144.
[1708]. Sch. Aristoph. Eq. 420. Hesiod alludes to this diet where he celebrates the inferiority of the half to the whole:—