[1295]. Quaternis denariis scripula ejus permutata quondam, ut auri reperio. Plin. Nat. Hist. xix. 4.
[1296]. Suid. v. Ἀμοργὶς. Aristoph. Lysist. 150, et Schol. This was the rate at which silk was afterwards sold, as we learn from an anecdote of Aurelian. “Vestem holosericam neque ipse in vestiario suo habuit, neque alteri utendam dedit. Et quum ab eo uxor sua peteret, ut unico pallio blatteo serico uteretur, ille respondit, absit ut auro fila pensentur: libra enim auri tunc libra serici fuit.” Vopisc. Vit. Aurelian, cap. xlv.
[1297]. See Dapper, Description des Iles de l’Archipel. p. 184.
[1298]. For which the old man substitutes a fox’s tail. Aristoph. Eq. 906, et Schol.
[1299]. Poll. vii. 73. Herod. iv. 74.
[1300]. Hemst. ad Poll. x. 32. Cf. ii. 24.
[1301]. Herod. vii. 12.
[1302]. Id. iii. 98. Comm. on Poll. vii. 76.
[1303]. Aristot. Hist. Animal. v. 19. Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 26.
[1304]. Lady Montague’s Works, t. ii. p. 191.