[1063]. Id. v. 3. 3.
[1064]. This tree was supposed particularly to delight in the perpetual snows of the Cretan Ida. Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 1. 3.
[1065]. Hist. Plant. v. 4. 2.
[1066]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. v. 37, seq. Cf. Plin. Hist. Nat. 30. Diod. Sicul. v. 46. This wood, on account of its extraordinary durability, was much used in the roofing of ancient temples. Many suppose it to be the Arbor Vitæ. Clus. Hist. Rar. Plant. i. 24. p. 36, seq.
[1067]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. v. 4. 3.
[1068]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 2. 7.
[1069]. Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 530.
[1070]. Plat. De Rep. t. vi. 86. Plin. viii. 39. xxxv. 36. xxxiii. 54. Poll. i. 7. See the note of the Milanese editor of Winkelmann, Hist. de l’Art, t. i. p. 31, seq.
[1071]. Plut. Alex. § 14. Herod. ii. 131. Pausanias supplies a list of the different kinds of wood used in the most ancient statues. viii. 17. 2.
[1072]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. v. 3. 7.