Baiæ, bad water at, 70.
Balani, or sea-acorns, 151.
Ball-play said to be invented by the Lacedæmonians, 23;
various kinds, 24.
Ball-player, statue erected to a, 31.
Bambradon, a fish, 451.
Banishment and death of philosophers, 875, 975.
Banquets, posture at, 29;
dancing at, 219;
an Attic banquet, 220;
Lacedæmonian, 224;
Cretan, 231;
Persian, 233;
Cleopatra's, 239;
Phigalean, 240;
Arcadian, 241;
at Naucratis, 241;
Egyptian, 242;
Thracian, 243;
Celtic, 245;
Parthian, 246;
Roman, 247;
philosophic banquets, 288;
described by Homer, 289, 300;
by Epicurus, 298;
by Xenophon, 299;
dole-basket, 575;
public, on occasion of victory, 853.
Barbine wine, 44.
Bards, the old Grecian, modest and orderly, 22.
Barley-cakes, 189.