like him I will eat up the very stones whole, and not the earth alone." The speaker introduced here is an extravagant old fellow, an imitator of Ctesippus, the son of Chabrias, whose shameful doings and luxury are described by Athenæus. A xλavis was a fine thin robe worn as an upper garment among the Athenians. When a young man he had worn a xhauús, a thicker, coarser, military garment, worn over the tunic, a cuirass. Voluptuous old men painted the hair of their head and beard, (" crines et barbam sibi pingebant," are the words of the Commentator,) that they might seem the younger to their mistresses.* This operation, which was intended to conceal gray hairs, could not have been performed by immersion, which would have dyed the skin as well as the hair, and might have given a man the appearance of a mulatto or a black but certainly not of a youth. It must, therefore, have been a laying on of colour, an operation of painting, and the word Báoua is here used as the appropriate term for it. While such men, as the speaker in this passage, painted their hair, where they considered it an ornament, they had it, in other parts, entirely plucked away. This explains the additional clause καὶ παρατιλοῦμαι. Ctesippus was, as already said, the son of Chabrías, an illustrious Athenian general, but very unlike his * See the two examples at the top of page 253. father. He went to such an extreme of profligacy as to sell the stones of his father's monument, built by the Athenians at the public expense, that he might consume the money on his pleasures. It is to this fact, that the old man alludes, when he speaks about "eating up the very stones." Mevavogou λerava, with λειψανα, Notes by Grotius and Clericus. Amstel. 1709. 8vo. p. 136. THE END. GLASGOW : Printers to the University. With such additions, as shall render the GRAMMAR suitable for the general study of the Greek Language, and the LEXICON sufficiently copious to aid in reading the ordinary classical Authors. WORKS PUBLISHED BY WARDLAW & CUNNINGHAME, 173, TRONGATE. THE TESTIMONY of GOD AGAINST MASSACRE and RAPINE; a Sermon preached in Nile-Street Meeting-House, on Sabbath, the 9th April, 1820. By GREVILLE EWING, 8vo. 6d. The DUTY of ABSTAINING from DEBT; a Sermon preached in Nile-Street Meeting-House, on the 4th and 11th of March, 1821. By the same. 8vo. 1s. TRAVELS THROUGH PART of the UNITED STATES and CANADA, in 1818-19. By JOHN M. DUNCAN, A. B. in 2 vols. post 8vo. price 16s. bds. The PROTESTANT; in which are Discussed the Principal Points of Controversy between the Church of Rome and the Reformed Church. By WILLIAM M'GAVIN, ESQ. 4 vols. 8vo. price 30s. boards. N. B. Any volume may be had separately. LECTURES on the BOOK of ECCLESIASTES. BY RALPH WARDLAW, D. D. 2 vols. 8vo. 18s. boards. DISCOURSES on the PRINCIPAL POINTS of the SOCINIAN CONTROVERSY. By the same. Third Edition, 8vo. 12s. bds. UNITARIANISM INCAPABLE of VINDICATION; a Reply to the Rev. James Yates' Vindication of Unitarianism. By the same. 8vo. 10s. 6d. boards. THREE LECTURES on the ABRAHAMIC COVENANT, and its Connection with INFANT BAPTISM. By the same. 8vo. 3s. 6d. stitched. MISCELLANEOUS DISCOURSES, Preached on Public Occasions, and ESSAYS, collected into One Volume. By the same. 8vo. 15s. 6d. bds. REVELATION, a POEM: illustrative of the immense importance of the BRITISH and FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. By GEORGE MARTIN. Price 3s. 6d. bds. 10 |