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

by James Augustus St. John

[2643]. Lucian. Musc. Encom. § 1. Cf. Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 77.

[2644]. Strab. ii. 1. t. i. p. 114. Cf. Diod. Sicul. ii. 37. t. i. p. 169. Wesseling.

[2645]. Athen. v. 39.

[2646]. Beckmann, Hist. of Inventions, iv. 247.

[2647]. Lucian. Navig. § 23. As the Brahmins looked upon the parrot as a sacred bird, they did not perhaps permit it to become an article of commerce, although they had already begun to employ their leisure in teaching it to imitate the human voice. Ælian. de Nat. Animal. xiii. 18.

[2648]. Athen. v. 32.

[2649]. Dioscor. v. 107. See the Asiatic Researches, vol. iii. p. 414.

[2650]. Beckmann, History of Inventions, iv. 101, seq. Cf. Asiatic Researches, iii. 414. Hen. van Rheede, Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, p. 102.

[2651]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 7. 7.

[2652]. Lucian. de Musca, § 1. Herod. iii. 106.