[263]. Dem. Olynth. iii. § 9. De Rep. Ord. § 10.
[264]. Xenoph. Hellen. vi. 5. 27.
[265]. Cf. Athen. i. 28.
[266]. Cf. Müll. Dor. ii. 272.
[267]. Il. β. 657, sqq.
[268]. A similar taste prevailed among the Merovingian princes of France: “The mansion of the long-haired kings was surrounded with convenient yards and stables for the cattle and the poultry; the garden was planted with useful vegetables; the various trades, the labours of agriculture, and even the arts of hunting and fishing were exercised by servile hands for the emolument of the sovereign; his magazines were filled with corn and wine, either for sale or consumption, and the whole administration was conducted by the strictest maxims of private economy.”—Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ii. 356.
[269]. Hesych. v. αὐλῆς.
[270]. Feith. Antiq. Hom. iii. 10. p. 242.
[271]. Casaub. ad Theoph. Char. p. 145.
[272]. Plat. Protag. t. i. p. 159. Cf. Aristid. t. i. p. 518. Jebb.