. 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 . gin of Greek taste be asciibed toEgypt or any other country.—[G. W.] * The market-place Λvas originallyoutside the walls, generally in an openspace, beneath what was afterwards thecitadel or the acropolis; as we see in theold sites of Greek and also Romantowns, a
. 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 . gin of Greek taste be asciibed toEgypt or any other country.—[G. W.] * The market-place Λvas originallyoutside the walls, generally in an openspace, beneath what was afterwards thecitadel or the acropolis; as we see in theold sites of Greek and also Romantowns, as at Rome itself, whence per-haps called Forum. The same is stillthe case in some countries at the pre-sent day, as at Cattaro, in Dalmatia. This first antithesis is an instance ofHerodotus confining to one sex what 46 ANTITHESIS OF THE SEXES. Book II. loom ; ^ and here, while the rest of the world works the woof up thewarp,^ tlie Egyptians work it down; tlie women likewise carryburthens upon their shoulders, while the men carry them upontheir heads. They eat their food out of doors in the streets,^ applies to both; and the sculpturesshow that sedentary occupations \veromore followed by women than by men.—[G. W.] 1 This is one of the passages in ourauthor where his words so closely re-semble those of Sophocles as to raise. 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 someti
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