[344]. Theoph. Char. c. 17. Casaub. p. 259.
[345]. Meursius (in Panath. c. xv. p. 22) is very unsatisfactory.
[346]. Schol. Aristoph. Nub. 385.
[347]. Demosth. cont. Phorm. § 13. Cf. Meurs. Rhod. p. 127.
[348]. Schol. Aristoph. Vesp. 718.
[349]. Athen. i. 5.
[350]. Athen. xii. 43. Money itself was sometimes distributed. Dem. adv. Leochar. § 12.
[351]. Athen. i. 5.
[352]. Theopomp. ap. Athen. xii. 44.
[353]. Alluding to the necessity of labour to the poor, Plato says:—If an artisan happen to fall sick, he demands a rapid cure of his physician by emetics or aperients, or cautery, or surgical operation. But if he be recommended a long and careful attention to regimen, to tie up his head and such things, he speedily replies, that he has no leisure to play the valetudinarian, and that it is of no advantage to him to preserve his life by such continual nursings, while his affairs are going to ruin. Thus dismissing his physician, and returning to his ordinary diet, if he recover he pursues his calling, if not he is delivered from all his troubles at once. De Repub. t. vi. l. iii. p. 145.