inspired the youth of Greece with admiration for their ancestors, and called to their mind those glorious days when their country teemed with freemen ready at any moment to shed their blood for the institutions and the land which those institutions alone rendered holy. These anniversary rites were celebrated on the sixteenth day of the month Maimacterion, the Alalcomenios of the Boeotians. The procession moved forth from the city in the grey of the morning, having at its head a trumpeter sounding the signal of battle. Numerous chariots followed, filled with myrtle-branches, and wreaths, and garlands, succeeded by a black bull. Vessels of wine, and jars of milk, and vases of oil and odoriferous essences were borne next by a number of free youths, no slave being permitted to take part in these solemnities performed in honour of men who had died for liberty. Last in the procession came the archon, habited in a scarlet robe and armed with a sword, though on all other occasions he was forbidden the touch of steel, and went clad in white. In his hand he bore a water-jar taken from the Hall of Archives. In this he drew water from a fountain, and having laved therewith the pillars which surmounted the tombs, he perfumed them with the essences: next slaying the bull at the altar, and addressing his prayers to Zeus and the Chthonian Hermes, he invoked to partake of the funeral repast and the streams of blood, the spirits of those valiant men who had fallen for their country. Then, filling a goblet with wine and pouring it forth in libations, he concluded with these words: "I drink to the "warriors who died for the liberties of Greece."

1 See the description of a tomb of honour in Plat. de Legg. xii. t. viii. p. 292, where Suidas seems to suppose the arch to have been built

of precious stones, v. alica. t. ii. p. 1165. c.

2 Plut. Aristid. § 21.

INDEX.

A.

ABDERA, slaves of, iii. 32.

Abortion, i. 125.

Absolution, sold in ancient times, i. 357.
Acacalis, from Egypt, iii. 387.

Acacia-gum, from Egypt, iii. 387.

Academy, gymnasium of the, i. 193.

Æginetan pottery, iii. 329.

99 wares, iii. 256.

Æginetans, engaged in foreign trade, iii.
257.

Ægis, an ornament for the bosom, ii. 64.
Ægosthena, wine of, iii. 331.

Æolia, purple fish from, iii. 352.

Æropos, a royal lampmaker, iii. 194, n. 5.

Acarnania, formerly called Curetis, i. 6, n. 1. Æsakos, or branch of song, ii. 209.

exports of, iii. 340.

Accoucheurs, i. 115.

Achaia, exports of, iii. 333.

Acharnæ, charcoal of, iii. 172.

Achillean barley, ii. 386, n. 6.
Achilles, his filial piety, i. 31.

Eschylus, his style and characters, i. 329.
Æsopic fables, i. 166.

Æsopos, the actor, ii. 242.

Æthiopia, exports of, iii. 381.

Æthiopians, their mode of sepulture, iii.
435.

his swiftness in the chase, i. 211. Æthiopis, a plant, iii. 332.

his cup, ii. 114.

from Mount Ida, iii. 352.

Ætolia, called Curetis, i. 5.

99

exports of, iii. 340.

Ætolians, called Curetes by Homer, i. 6.
Affghanistan, topes or barrows of, iii. 431.
Africa, productions of, iii. 381.
Agaric from Sarmatia, iii. 345.
Agates from Sicily, iii. 373.
Agatharchos, a scene-painter, ii. 232.
Agathocles, an amateur of cups, ii. 113.
Age at which children walked, i. 136.
Agelæ, i. 279.

Agnodice, story of, i. 115.

Agnus-castus, crowns of, ii. 303, n. 2.
Agora of Athens, description of, iii. 120.
of Sparta, i. 96.

Alcinoös, his orchard, ii. 133, 318.

Anchovies from Athens, iii. 329.

Aleisthenes, his rich mantle, iii. 219, n. 2. Anchusa, root of, from Syria, iii. 393.

Aleipterion, i. 196.

Aleision, fair of, iii. 274.

Alexander, his power of drinking, ii. 195.
his patronage of actors, ii. 234,

235.

his grief for the loss of He-
phæstion, iii. 438.

Alexandria, game-cocks of, iii. 388.

Ancients, their theory concerning the
Pelasgi, i. 3.

Andalusia, productions of, iii. 379.
Andania, Dii Kabyri worshipped at, i. 19.
Androcrates, heroon of, iii. 427.
Andros, aloes of, iii. 364.
Androsaces, from Syria, iii. 393.
Anemonies, ii. 311, n. 3.

Alexis, his picture of a poor family, iii. 95. Angling in Homeric times, ii. 132.

Greeks, iii. 258.

Amazonium at Chalcis, iii. 429.

Animal food, ii. 137.

Animals, protected by the gods, i. 358.

Amasis, privileges granted by him to the Anthosmias, a wine, ii. 166, iii. 116.

Amianthos, asbestos quarries near, iii. 362. Antiope, children of, where exposed, i. 123.

Aminian vine, ii. 342.

Ammoniac, from Africa, iii. 383.

Aoidoi, i. 319.
Aones, i. 11.

Amomites, a kind of frankincense, iii. 399. Apageli, i. 278.

Amomon, from Pontos, iii. 344.

Aparctias, iii. 322.

Apetiotes, iii. 321.

Aphamiotæ, Cretan serfs, iii. 63.

Aphetæ, street of, i. 98, 104.
Aphetæ, the, iii. 56.

Aphrodision, iii, 308.

a basin of the Peiraeus, i. 74.
Aphrodite, character of her beauty, i. 309.
her appearance to Anchises, ii.

416.

Aphroselenon, from Arabia, iii. 395.

for vineyards, i. 118, n. 1, ii. 350. Apia, a name of Peloponnesos, i. 17.

Amylæ, slippers of, iii. 337.

Anaclinopale, i. 201.

Anacreon and the nurse, an anecdote, i.139.

Anactoria, a name of Miletos, i. 15.

Apiaries, fences of, ii. 295.
Apodyterion, i. 196.

in the baths, ii. 90.
Apokinos, a dance, ii. 255.

Anadendrides, appearance of a vineyard of, Apollo, altar of, at the theatre, ii. 226.

ii. 347.

trained on trees, ii. 346.

Anadesma, a gilded fillet, ii. 61.
Anazarbos, olive grounds of, ii. 315, n. 4.
Anchises, his meeting with Aphrodite, ii.
416.

Anchovies from the Lipari islands, iii. 376.

Apollonia, asphaltos from, iii. 370.
Aposeisis, a dance, ii. 255.
Apothetæ, i. 121.

Appetite, repressed at Sparta, i. 267.
Apple trees, ii. 316.

in Ithaca, ii. 133.

Apples, ii. 159.

Aristotle, his opinion of the Spartan wo- Athena Polias, chapel of, i. 81.

Atossa, her desire for Grecian slaves, iii. 5. Battle-axes, iii. 161.

form assumed by slavery in, iii. 18. Bdellion, from Arabia Felix, iii. 400.

Barn-door fowls, from the Adriatic, iii. 369. Beggars, costume of, iii. 90.