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The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1


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of Athens.

159

Shortly before the meeting of the Assembly, a number of young pigs were immolated and a few drops of their blood were sprinkled on the seats of the Prytanes; this sacrifice was in honour of Ceres.

160

The name, Amphitheus, contains the word, [Greek: Theos], god.

161

Amongst other duties, it was the office of the Prytanes to look after the wants of the poor.

162

The summer residence of the Great King.

163

Referring to the hardships he had endured garrisoning the walls of Athens during the Lacedaemonian invasions early in the War.

164

Cranaus, the second king of Athens, the successor of Cecrops.

165

Lucian, in his 'Hermotimus,' speaks of these golden mountains as an apocryphal land of wonders and prodigies.