[235] Plato, Laws, 810 A (cp. the prizes for calligraphy in Teos).
[236] Athen. 453 d.
[237] Giles’ Manual of Comparative Philology, § 604.
[238] Athen. 453 c, d.
[239] A fragment of terra-cotta has been found at Athens, containing on it:
αρ βαρ γαρ δαρ
ερ βερ γερ δερ
which must have belonged to some spelling-book—perhaps the brick formed part of the wall of a schoolroom.—Quoted by Girard, p. 131.
[240] Athen. 454 f.
[241] This is by no means inconceivable, when it is remembered that the Hellenes often set even the laws to music, in order to make them easier to learn and remember.