Her vest is of ailk. Similar in this respect was the prac- ' tice throughout Greece, even so early as the time of Homer, who thus, in his description of the Shield, calls up before our imagination the lively picture of an heroic nuptial procession: Montaigne obaerves, that thv an- cient Gauls mode little use of the dress of married women and Cf. Some persons ap IMjar to have worn skin-cloaks all the year round, for we find Anaxagoras, in the midst of summer at Olympia, putting on his when ho foresaw there wouhi be rain. On the form of which, see Theoph.
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We might adduce numerous anecdotes in proof of this. There were accordingly Thericlea of gold with wooden stands.
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. It is not permitted here to lift the curtain from the manners of these ladies. Besides, how happens it that Ihia same Cecrops who instituted mar- ' riage did not likewise teach them to sow com, which, if Egypt waa, when he left it, a civilised country, must have been as familiar to him as larisda
Tis sweet in early mom to cool the lips With pure fresh water from tlie gushing fount, Mingled with honey in the Bauealis, When one o'er night haa made too free with wine. In their view, if there has been one good woman since the world began, it is as much as there has. Accordingly, we find the prudent Odysseus, who apprehended, perhaps, the tricks of his domestics, stowing away his casks of choice old wine in tlie Thalamos, doubtless, con- sidering it safer there, under the keeping of Eury- clea, than it would have been anywhere else in the palace.
At Athens, as everywhere eleo, things followed their natural course.
If, however, the tradition arose originally out of any real inno- vation in manners, it may refer to the partial abo- lition of polygamy, which, whether made by Cecrops or not, was an im Jortant step in the progress of the Greeks towards polished life. But a learned modern conjectures with more probability, that it was some tatiemanic idol worn as a spell against the evil eye.
Others draw a distinction between iaros nnd iriirXoc, the former, they say, being employed to signify a veil unwTought and purely white, the latter, one which was variegated with colours and embroidery. It is altogether different with respect to that of the gentlewomen of Attica, where, though inferior in personal beauty to none, the women exhibited so much fertility iu the matter of dress, that they appeared to depend on that alone for the establishment of their eia- pire.
Tlio doors usually consiBted of a frame-work, with four or six sunken panels, as with us ; but at Sparta, so long as the laws of Lycurgue prevailed, tliey were made of simple planks fashioned with the hatchet. Those of Delos to Hecaergu and Ops,' while, like the Athe- nians, the maidens of Argos performed this rite in honour of Athena.
Hippolochos, to whose enthusiasm for descriptions of good cheer, the reader is indebted for the above picturesque discov, concludes Ills important nan'ative by observing, larlssa, when they rose to depart, their anxiety respecting the wealth they had acquired sobered them completely. In the Homeric age they would appear to have been of carved diaacov, inlaid with ivory and gold, and studded with silver nails.
However, having no object to gain by aping the exterior of diaco, they eschewed the wearing of ragged cloaks, which, indeed, was forbidden by law. They have already emerged from the state of pa- triarchal rule, not by any means the lowest, and have arrived at the monarchical period in the historyof society — for Cecrops marries the daughter of king Actseos — yet have not made the first step in refine- ' Athen.
The commentators on Pollux, t. It was fashionable to poesess plate of this kind finely sculptured with historical arguments; and history has preserved the names of Cimon and Athenocles, two artists who excelled in this style of engraving. Clustering in interesting Athen.
It Mill be evident from what has been said, that an Athenian lady who conBcientiously discharged her duties was very little exposed to ennui. But, one eftect of democracy is to confer undue influence upon women. But their judgment probably was warjied by theory. It was "other- wise of old in Greece. Mirrors constituted another article of Hellenic luxury.
Ttiey were bestowed as the prizes in gymnastic contests, and in Greece men diaco and wrestled for the cup as horses run for it in Eng- land. Artaxerxes, larizsa ear could tolerate more flatterers than one, took the Cretan into fiivour, and made him a present of a superb marquee, a silver-footed bedstead, with costly furniture, and, along with them, sent a slave, as a Turkish pasha would send a cook or a pipe-lighter, because, in his opinion, the Greeks who prepared.
It is certain, however, con- ' Alhen. Montaigne obaerves, that thv an- cient Gauls mode little use of the dress of married women and Cf.
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It is, however, incumbent on the re- cipients to make proof in their turn of equal larossa rosity when any member of the donor's family ven- tures on the hazards of housekeeping. The diadov herself, gifted with that unerring taste which distinguished her nation, appeared in a costume at once simple and magnificent— simple in its contour, its masses, its folds, magnificent from the brilliance of its hues and the superb and costly style of its ornaments.
The poor were, of course, content with the commonest wood. Necklaces of gilded wood. No lariss appears to have paid a single visit to Persia, or SjTia, or Egypt, without bringing back along with him some pestilent new freak in the matter of dress or furniture, wholly at variance with republican simplicity.
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