[85] We have already seen that the
Athenians
sometimes kept their small
money in their mouth.
money in their mouth.
Aristophanes
Its value
was about 4-1/2 d.
[75] A jar of wine, which he had bought with his pay.
[76] A jar with two long ears or handles, in this way resembling an ass.
[77] A well-known flute-player.
[78] We have already seen that when accepting his son's challenge he
swore to fall upon his sword if defeated in the debate.
[79] Pericles had first introduced the custom of sending poor citizens,
among whom the land was divided, into the conquered countries. The island
of Aegina had been mainly divided in this way among Athenian colonists.
[80] The choenix was a measure corresponding to our quart.
[81] A verse borrowed from Euripides' 'Bellerophon. '
[82] i. e. a legislator. The name given in Athens to the last six of the
nine Archons, because it was their special duty to see the laws
respected.
[83] Mentioned both in 'The Acharnians' and 'The Knights. '
[84] The drachma was worth six obols, or twice the pay of a heliast.
[85] We have already seen that the Athenians sometimes kept their small
money in their mouth.
[86] Which were placed in the courts; dogs were sacrificed on them.
[87] As already stated, the statue of Lycus stood close to the place
where the tribunals sat.
[88] The barrier in the Heliaea, which separated the heliasts from the
public.
[89] The whole of this comic trial of the dog Labes is an allusion to the
general Laches, already mentioned, who had failed in Sicily. He was
accused of taking bribes of money from the Sicilians.
[90] To serve for a bar.
[91] This was a customary formula, [Greek: aph' Estias archou], "begin
from Hestia," first adore Vesta, the god of the family hearth. In similar
fashion, the Romans said, _ab Jove principium_.
[92] For conviction and acquittal.
[93] On which the sentence was entered.
[94] No doubt the stew-pot and the wine-jar.
[95] The _article_ Bdelycleon had brought. --The clepsydra was a kind of
water-clock; the other vessel is compared to it, because of the liquid in
it.
[96] A title of Apollo, worshipped as the god of healing.
[97] A title of Apollo, because of the sacrifices, which the Athenians
offered him in the streets, from [Greek: aguia], a street.
was about 4-1/2 d.
[75] A jar of wine, which he had bought with his pay.
[76] A jar with two long ears or handles, in this way resembling an ass.
[77] A well-known flute-player.
[78] We have already seen that when accepting his son's challenge he
swore to fall upon his sword if defeated in the debate.
[79] Pericles had first introduced the custom of sending poor citizens,
among whom the land was divided, into the conquered countries. The island
of Aegina had been mainly divided in this way among Athenian colonists.
[80] The choenix was a measure corresponding to our quart.
[81] A verse borrowed from Euripides' 'Bellerophon. '
[82] i. e. a legislator. The name given in Athens to the last six of the
nine Archons, because it was their special duty to see the laws
respected.
[83] Mentioned both in 'The Acharnians' and 'The Knights. '
[84] The drachma was worth six obols, or twice the pay of a heliast.
[85] We have already seen that the Athenians sometimes kept their small
money in their mouth.
[86] Which were placed in the courts; dogs were sacrificed on them.
[87] As already stated, the statue of Lycus stood close to the place
where the tribunals sat.
[88] The barrier in the Heliaea, which separated the heliasts from the
public.
[89] The whole of this comic trial of the dog Labes is an allusion to the
general Laches, already mentioned, who had failed in Sicily. He was
accused of taking bribes of money from the Sicilians.
[90] To serve for a bar.
[91] This was a customary formula, [Greek: aph' Estias archou], "begin
from Hestia," first adore Vesta, the god of the family hearth. In similar
fashion, the Romans said, _ab Jove principium_.
[92] For conviction and acquittal.
[93] On which the sentence was entered.
[94] No doubt the stew-pot and the wine-jar.
[95] The _article_ Bdelycleon had brought. --The clepsydra was a kind of
water-clock; the other vessel is compared to it, because of the liquid in
it.
[96] A title of Apollo, worshipped as the god of healing.
[97] A title of Apollo, because of the sacrifices, which the Athenians
offered him in the streets, from [Greek: aguia], a street.
