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

by James Augustus St. John

[474]. Sch. Aristoph. Nub. 742.

[475]. Sch. Aristoph. Nub. 741.

[476]. Plaut. in Mostell. i. 3. 101.

[477]. Plin. xxxiii. 45. Senec. Quæst. Nat. i. 4.

[478]. Paus. viii. 37. 7.

[479]. Plat. de Rep. t. vi. p. 86. Plin. Hist. Nat. vii. 39. xxxv. 36. xxxiii. 56.

[480]. Athen. xi. 3. Menage, Observat. in Diog. Laert. vi. 32. p. 138. a. b.

[481]. Poll. i. 28.

[482]. Plat. de Rep. t. vi. p. 86.

[483]. An elegant candelabrum, ornamented with the figure of a twisted serpent, and a flight of birds resting here and there on the branches, is found in the Mus. Cortonens. tab. 80.—They were sometimes of gilt wood.—Winkelmann, i. 34.