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

by James Augustus St. John

[343]. Æsch. Agam. 3, sqq. We find, however, an allusion to the pointed roof in Iliad. ψ. 712, seq.

[344]. Antich. di Erc. tav. 3, p. 11.

[345]. Odyss. κ. 559. Eustath. ad loc. p. 1669, l. 15. Feith. Ant. Hom. iii. 10, p. 249.

[346]. Cf. Athen. ix. 22. iii. 60.

[347]. Cf. Sch. Aristoph. Nub. 91. Vesp. 139, 147.

[348]. Topog. of Athens, p. 361.

[349]. Cf. Perrault, sur Vitruv. vi. 9. Mazois, Pal. de Scaur. p. 178. On the interior of a Roman house, see Pet. Bellori, Frag. Vet. Rom. p. 31.

[350]. Schol. Aristoph. Vesp. 148.

[351]. Athen. iii. 60 ix. 22.

[352]. Leake, Topog. of Ath. p. 361. Yet we find them sometimes throwing the water out of the window, crying, Stand out of the way. Schol. Aristoph. Acharn. 592.