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

by James Augustus St. John

[463]. Συκαλίδες. Aristot. Hist. Anim. viii. 3. ix. 49.

[464]. Poll. vi. 77.

[465]. Athen. xiv. 55.

[466]. Athen. xiv. 56.

[467]. Poll. vi. 76.

[468]. Athen. xiv. 56.

[469]. Κρεωπώλης. Butchers were also called μαγείροι κρεωδαίτας and κρεουργοὶ. Poll. vii. 25.

[470]. Athen. xiii. 43.

[471]. Jason of Pheræ once excited among the Thessalian cities a contention as to which of them should supply the finest ox: Ἐκήρυξε δὲ καὶ νικητήριον χρυσοῦν στέφανον ἔσεσθαι, εἴ τις τῶν πόλεων βοῦν ἡγεμόνα κάλλιστον τῷ θεῷ θρέψειε. Xenoph. Hellen. vi. 4. 29.

[472]. Poll. ix. 48.