[222] Cf. Duckett, Studies in Ennius (1915), p. 70.
[223] Cf. the works mentioned on pp. [xvii] and [xx f.], above. There is no special literature on this subject.
[224] Cf. chaps. iv and ix and the bibliographies on [pp. 196] and [318], below.
[225] A drachma contained six obols and was worth about eighteen cents without making allowance for the greater purchase value of money in antiquity.
[226] Cf. Haigh, The Attic Theatre (3d ed. by Pickard-Cambridge, 1907), p. 1.
[227] The affirmative side of the question is presented by Haigh, op. cit., pp. 324 ff.; the negative by Rogers, Introduction to Aristophanes’ Women in Council (1902), pp. xxix ff.
[228] Cf. Frickenhaus, “Der Schiffskarren des Dionysos in Athen,” Jahrbuch d. arch. Instituts, XXVII (1912), 61 ff. Fig. 65 originally appeared as Beilage I, Fig. 3, in connection with this article. It is taken from a drawing by Signor G. Gatti, a photograph of which was furnished me through the courtesy of Professor Ghisardini, Director of the Museo Civico at Bologna.
[229] Cf. Plautus’ The Casket, vss. 89 f.:
per Dionysia
mater pompam me spectatum duxit,