[419]. Athen. ii. 30.
[420]. In old times the whole bedroom was sometimes perfumed.—Iliad, γ. 382.
[421]. Athen. ii. 30. Aristoph. Frag. incert. 2. Brunck.
[422]. Deipnosoph. xi. 55. Casaub. ad Theoph. Char. p. 172.
[423]. Feith. Antiq. Homer, iii. 8. 4.
[424]. Very nearly the same customs prevail in Persia at the present day, except that the rules of etiquette seem to be still more rigidly observed. “It is a general custom with the kings of Persia to eat in solitary grandeur. The late Shah, however, would sometimes have select portions of his family to breakfast with him.” On which occasion, “they used to squat round him in the form of a crescent, of which he was the centre, and were all placed scrupulously according to rank.”—Fowler, i. 48.
[425]. Athen. vi. 58. Vales. not. in Maussac. p. 282, where he corrects the old reading of the text. Cf. Xenoph. Hellen. vii. 1. 38. Plut. Pelop. § 30. Artax. § 22. Valer. Max. vi. 3. extern. 2. Demosth. de Fals. Leg. § 42, where the orator accuses Timagoras of having received a bribe of forty talents.
[426]. Athen. ii. 31.
[427]. Xen. Anab. i. 5. 5.
[428]. Nub. 10. Cf. Av. 122. Concionat. 838. ibique not. Pollux, vii. 382, seq. x. 542.