[916] Plato, "Timæus," p. 90 A. Compare Ovid, "Metamorphoses," i. 84-86.

[917] Derived from μετὰ, γείτον, because then people flitted and changed their neighbours.

[918] Euripides, "Iphigenia in Tauris," 253.

[919] See also Pausanias, viii. 24.

[920] Pindar, Fragm. 126.

[921] Æschylus, "Niobe," Fragm. 146.

[922] "Odyssey," vi. 8. I read ἀνδρῶν as Wyttenbach.

[923] "Odyssey," vi. 204.

[924] See Pausanias, v. 6.

[925] In our money about £121 17s. 6d.