[546]. This achievement the Teian celebrates in one of his own odes, a fragment of which has been preserved by Athenæus, xi. 45.
Ἠρίστησα μὲν ἰτρίου λέπτον ἀποκλὰς,
Οἴνου δ᾽ ἐξέπιον κάδον.
[547]. Athen. x. 12. i. 61. Dioscor. ii. 110. Goguet. i. 231.
[548]. Voyages de la Comp. des Indes, i. 62.
[549]. Xenoph. Anab. iv. 5.
[550]. Cf. Plat. de Leg. t. viii. p. 114, seq. De Rep. t. vi. p. 176. Muret. ad Arist. Ethic. p. 415.
[551]. Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 137. Casaub. ad Theoph. Char. p. 125.
[552]. Cf. Demosth. cont. Con. § 3.
[553]. Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 295. Xenoph. de Off. Mag. Eq. iii. 2, with the note of Schneider.—Throughout Greece, persons to whom especial honour was designed had their statues erected in the agora, as Theodectes at Phaselis. Plut. Alexand. § 17. The statue of the market Hermes stood near the Stoa Pœcile, and was usually smeared with pitch, from the practice of sculptors who came constantly to take casts from it with a preparation of that substance. Lucian. Jup. Trag. § 33.