Charicles : or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks : with notes and excursuses . nseu GaJlns, 10; (popd^rju inrh mrd-pwu KiKOfxifffx^uov. Hence, perhaps,are to be explained the four talents,which Artaxerxes gave to the bearersof Pelopidas. Plutarch, Pelop. Lucian, Cyn. 9. Scene VIL] THE TKITOX. 125 panied by mucli merriment and laughter. Approachingthe spot, they beheld through a break in the bushes a mostfascinating spectacle. By the maigin of the brook sat ablooming fair one, dabbling with her feet in the brawlingstream, and behind her a female slave held a paiaso
Charicles : or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks : with notes and excursuses . nseu GaJlns, 10; (popd^rju inrh mrd-pwu KiKOfxifffx^uov. Hence, perhaps,are to be explained the four talents,which Artaxerxes gave to the bearersof Pelopidas. Plutarch, Pelop. Lucian, Cyn. 9. Scene VIL] THE TKITOX. 125 panied by mucli merriment and laughter. Approachingthe spot, they beheld through a break in the bushes a mostfascinating spectacle. By the maigin of the brook sat ablooming fair one, dabbling with her feet in the brawlingstream, and behind her a female slave held a paiasoP to ^^ A parasol, oKidS^iou, was anindispensable article to a Grecian, nrat least to an Athenian lady ; it wasTisually carried by afemale slave; buton festivals this servicewas performedby the daughters of the Metceci. Soin Aristoph. Thesmojoh. 821, the chorus of women taunt the men whohad thrown away their aKiäbeiov, theshield. These parasols occur fre-quently on vases. The accompanyingfigure is taken from Millin, Peinturtsde Vases Antiques, ii. pi. 70. Seealso, Paciaudi de umbella 12G ClIARICLES. rScENE YII. shade her delicate form from the scorching rays ; whilstanother of more tender age knelt on the ground, and jokedconfidentially with her mistress. A little way otf a maleslave was packing up tlie breakfast things, which had beenspread among the tall grass \^- and on the road close bywas a carriage drawn by mules,^ the driver of which was This parasol much resembled ours,being constructed of moveable ribs,60 that it could be put up or down asrequired. TO. 5 u)7a yap crow, vi] Ai, k^eneravvvro,jiaTTip (TKiaSeiOf, Ka\ nä\ii/ ^ufrjyeTO. Aristoph. Equit. 1347, on which theScholiast observes: eKTeiuerai 5e kuI(Tv(Tr4Wfrai irphs rhu KareTreiyovTaKaip6u, Cf. Ovid, Art, Am. ii. 209:Ipse tene distenta suis umbracula virpis. They were occasionally carried bymen. but this was considered a markof effeminacy. Aristoph. ^<yS, 1Ö07,does not prove this, but a fragment
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