A dictionary of Greek and Roman . g, of papyrus, but those alsoin which the leaves of the date-palm were an in-gredient, and of which Appuleius makes distinctmention, when he describes a young priest coveredwith a linen sheet and wearing sandals of palm(linteis amiculis intectum, pedesque palmeis baxeisindutum, Met. ii). The accompanjing woodcutshows two sandals exactly answering to this de-scription, from the collection in the British upper one was worn on the right foot. It hasa loop on the right side for fastening the bandwhich went across the instep. This band, tog
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . g, of papyrus, but those alsoin which the leaves of the date-palm were an in-gredient, and of which Appuleius makes distinctmention, when he describes a young priest coveredwith a linen sheet and wearing sandals of palm(linteis amiculis intectum, pedesque palmeis baxeisindutum, Met. ii). The accompanjing woodcutshows two sandals exactly answering to this de-scription, from the collection in the British upper one was worn on the right foot. It hasa loop on the right side for fastening the bandwhich went across the instep. This band, togetherwith the ligature connected with it, which was in-serted between the great and the second toe, ismade of the stem of the papyrus, undivided andunwrought. The lower figure shows a sandal in BENDIDEIA. which the portions of the palm-leaf are interlacedwith great neatness and regularity, the sewing andbinding being effected by fibres of papyrus. Thethree holes may be observed for the passage of theband and ligature already mentioned. [J. Y.]. BEBAIOSEOS DIKE (&e§ai6(reus Siktj),an action to compel the vendor to make a goodtitle, was had recourse to when the right or pos-session of the purchaser was impugned or disturbedby a third person. A claimant under these cir-cumstances, unless the present owner were inclinedto fight the battle himself (avTOfxax^iv), was re-ferred to the vendor as the proper defendant in thecause (els irpaTripa audyeiv). If the vendor werethen unwilling to appear, the action in questionwas the legal remedy against him, and might beresorted to by the purchaser even when the earnestonly had been paid. (Harpocrat. s. v. hvrofxax^v,BeSaicoa-is.) From the passages in the oration ofDemosthenes against Pantaenetus that bear uponthe subject, it is concluded by Heraldus ( Salm. iv. 3. 6) that the liability to be so calledupon was inherent in the character of a vendor,and therefore not the subject of specific warranty?or covenants for title. The same cri
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