[473]. Athen. xiii. 23. Plut. Dem. § 12 Id. Dion. § 1.
[474]. Poll. vii. 25. Suid. v. κρεάγρα, t. i. p. 1521, seq.
[475]. Among the Romans in the good old days of the republic, gentlemen killed their own meat. “Suis enim fundum colit nostrum, quin sues habeat, et qui non audieret patres nostros dicere, ignavum, et sumptuosum esse, qui succidiam in carnario suspenderit potius ab laniario, quam ex domestico fundo?” Varro, De Re Rust. ii. 4. From the same author, (ii. 9,) we learn that ancient, like modern butchers, were fond of being attended by large fierce dogs, which he advises shepherds when in search of a co-guardian for their flocks most especially to eschew.
[476]. Schol. Aristoph. Pac. 359.
[477]. At the doors of these establishments then were probably, as at Pompeii, holes bored through the stones of the foot pavement, raised considerably above the road, to receive the halters of horses or mules. Hamilton, Discov. at Pomp. p. 12.
[478]. Casaub. ad Theoph. Char. p. 244, seq. Athen. x. 38.
[479]. Cf. Schol. Aristoph. Thesm. 744.
[480]. Others defrauded their customers by mixing mutton with kid. Schol. Arist. Eq. 1396.
[481]. Athen. xiii. 43.
[482]. Athen. iii. 97. Prodic. ap. Xen. Mem. ii. 1. 30.