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

by James Augustus St. John

[594]. Τηλία. Schol. Aristoph. Vesp. 147.

[595]. Athen. vi. 5.

[596]. Plut. Arat. § 6.

[597]. Sch. Aristoph. Nub. 318.

[598]. Cf. Poll. i. 51.

[599]. Athen. ii. 45. The travelling fishmongers even frequented the country-houses and villages, viii. 57. Schol. Aristoph. Av. 13, seq. Eq. 1241, sqq. It was probably persons of this class that most commonly used their mouths as a purse, as the Siamese do their ears. Casaub. ad Theoph. Char. p. 194. Aristoph. Vesp. 791. Their baskets were commonly of rushes. Athen. vii. 72. See a representation of them, Antich. di Ercol. t. i. tav. 21. p. 111.

[600]. Lucian, Amor. § 10. Plut. Arat. § 6.

[601]. Poll. ix. 48. Athen. ix. 22.

[602]. Chandler, ii. 104.

[603]. Athen. iv. 58.