. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . No. I. on eh. 136), and rarely on their heads,except bakers, as in other countries;while very few instances occur of a suspicion of plagiarism on the one sideor the other. (See note B. i. ch. 32;and vide infrh,, iii. 119.) The ancientsgenerally seem to have belie
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . No. I. on eh. 136), and rarely on their heads,except bakers, as in other countries;while very few instances occur of a suspicion of plagiarism on the one sideor the other. (See note B. i. ch. 32;and vide infrh,, iii. 119.) The ancientsgenerally seem to have believed thecharge of effeminacy brought by Hero-dotus against the Egyptians. Variouswriters repeat it, and one (Nympho-dorus) declares its ori-gin. (Seethe Scholiaston Soph. (Ed. Col. 337;and compare the ad-vice said to have beengiven by Croesus toCyrus, suprk, i. 155.) The foregoing re-mark, that a generalconclusion is drawnfrom particular andrare cases, applies alsoto this, as the Egyp-tians sometimes pushedthe woof upwards,sometimes down; andalso to their mode ofcarrying burthens, formen almost alwayscarried them on their^ shoulders, or on ayoke, like that now inuse in Europe Tsee■woodcut fig. 4 in note ^woman bearing a burthen on her shoul-ders.—[G. W.]. No. II. 3 That they sometimes ate in the and could not be mentioned in contra- street is not to be doxibted ; but this distinction to a Greek custom. The was only the poorer class, as in other Egyptians generally dined at a small parts of ancient and modern Europe, round table, having one leg (similar to Chap. 35. SOCIAL POSITION OF WOMEN. 47 but retire for private purposes to their houses, giving as a reasonthat Avhat is unseemly, but necessary, ought to be done in secret,but what has nothing unseemly about it, should be done woman cannot serve the priestly office,^ either for god or the monopodium\ at which one ormore persons sat, and they ate withtheir fingers like the Greelis and the mo-dern Arabs. Several dish
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