[614]. Id. 861.
[615]. Harpocrat. v. σιτοφύλακες p. 162. Dem. adv. Lept. § 8. Lys. cont. Dardan. § 6.
[616]. Schol. Aristoph. Acharn. 522.
[617]. Cf. Bœckh. Pub. Econ. i. 101, sqq. Diog. Laert. vi. 35. Dem. adv. Call. §§ 7. 9. Dionys. Halicarn. i. 100.
[618]. Plut. Poplic. § 11. Sol. § 23. On the low prices of provisions in Lusitania in the time of Polybius. Athen. viii. 1.
[619]. Aristoph. Nub. 20. 1226. Lys. adv. Fam. Obtrect. § 4. Some men brought themselves to ruin by their fondness for magnificent horses. Xenoph. Œcon. iii. 8.
[620]. Lucian. Luc. siv. Asin. § 35.
[621]. The same price was sometimes given for a Copaïc eel. Aristoph. Ach. 960, seq. Athen. xiv. 69.
[622]. Goguet. ii. 196. Herod. i. 192. Poll. iv. 171. Schol. Aristoph. Nub. 450. Acharn. 108. See an exact representation of an ancient pair of scales suspended from a bird’s bill in Mus. Cortonens. tab. 27.
[623]. Eisenschmid. De Pond. et Mens. Vet. p. 156.