. The life of the Greeks and Romans. TORCHES. bas-relief representing a vintage, in which the former appearsfilled with grapes, while the latter is being filled with mustby a boy. This proves, at the same time, the knowledgeamongst the Greeks of the art of making the basket-work denseenough to hold fluids. The same fact is shown by a passage inHomer, in which Polyphemos lets the milk coagulate to cheesein baskets (raAapos 7r\eKr6^), which cheese was afterwards placedon a hurdle (rapao^), through which the whey trickled plaited rushes, or twigs, consisted also a peculiar kind ofnet (k
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. TORCHES. bas-relief representing a vintage, in which the former appearsfilled with grapes, while the latter is being filled with mustby a boy. This proves, at the same time, the knowledgeamongst the Greeks of the art of making the basket-work denseenough to hold fluids. The same fact is shown by a passage inHomer, in which Polyphemos lets the milk coagulate to cheesein baskets (raAapos 7r\eKr6^), which cheese was afterwards placedon a hurdle (rapao^), through which the whey trickled plaited rushes, or twigs, consisted also a peculiar kind ofnet (k-vpros), a specimen of which is seen on the reverse of amedal coined under the Emperor Macrinus, as the emblem of themaritime city of Byzantium (see Dumersan, Descript. ant. du Cabinet du feu M. Allier de Hautcreche,PI. III., No. 8). Baskets, roughly plaited, appear also in thevase-painting of the Weighing out of the Silphion (Panofka, Bilder antiken Lebens, Taf. XVI., No. 3), where the silphionis being carried in them.
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