[429]. Cf. Poll. vi. 105.
[430]. Athen. xv. 42. Cf. Meineke. Curæ Crit. in Com. Frag. p. 7.
[431]. Mazois, Pal. de Scaur, p. 103. Tibull. iii. 3, 17, seq. Athen. iv. 29.
[432]. Athen. i. 49.
[433]. Il. ι. 200.—The use of mats first prevailed, (Festus, in v. Scirpus.) but, as luxury increased, superb carpets were substituted.—Æschyl. Agam. 842. Tryphiod. Ἅλωσις Ἴλιου. 343, seq. Hemster. Comm. in Poll. viii. 133. p. 287. Cf. Klausen. Comm. in Æschyl. Agam. p. 197, sqq.
[434]. Il. π. 224. Poll. vi. 2. Synes. Epist. 61.
[435]. Eidyll, xv. 125.
[436]. A beautiful simile, which Virgil has imitated—
“Muscosi fontes, et somno mollior herba.”—Eclog. vii. 45.
Shakespeare, too, has, without imitation, struck upon a similar thought, where the amorous Troilus thus describes himself:—