[690] Prov. xxxi. 19, 20, Septuagint.
[691] Gen. xviii. 6.
[692] Gen. xxix. 9.
[693] Ibid.
[694] φενίνδα or φεννίς.
[695] The text has ἦλθεν. The true reading, doubtless, is ἤληθεν. That Pittacus exercised himself thus, is stated by Isidore of Pelusium, Diogenes, Laertius, Plutarch.
[696] Gen. xxx. 37. Not poplar, as in A. V.
[697] Gen. xviii. 8.
[698] 1 Pet. ii. 12.
[699] Plato’s words are: “The web is not to be more than a woman’s work for a month. White colour is peculiarly becoming for the gods in other things, but especially in cloth. Dyes are not to be applied, except for warlike decorations.”—Plato, De Legibus, xii. 992.