Laws, 789E. In the third century A. D., the child was swaddled from forty to sixty days. Cf. Soranus, Gynæcia, ed. Rose, for this and other details of later usage.
Il., xxii, 83; xvi, 203; Od., xi, 448; Soph., Ajax, 849: Lysis, De Caed. Erat., 9.
Od., xix, 482; Dem., lvii, 42; Callim., Dem., 90, Ep. 54; Men., Sam., 32.
Eur., Hipp., 698, Cf. also Aul. Gel., 12, 5.
Athen., xiii, 85. Cf. Arist., Pol., vii, 17.
Pindar, Olymp., vi, 45; Schol. Aristoph., Thesm., 506; Apoll., Rhod., iv., 1136; Callim., Jove, 40.
Cf. also Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 18–19.
Adv. Math., ii, 42. Cf. also Theophr., Char., 20.
Aristoph., Knights, 716. Cf. also Plut., Rom., 2.
Panofka, T. Manners and Customs of the Greeks. London, 1849, Plate xi, 1.
Plut., Rom., 3. Cf. also Eur., Ion, 1398.
Schol. on Cal., Jove, 48. Etym. Mag. s. v. λεῖκνον.
Blümmer, H. Leben und Sitten der Griechen, Fig. 60.
Pollux, Onomasticon, ix, 27. Cf. Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Pt. vi, Lond., 1908, 852, fr. 1.
Heydemann, Griechische Vasenbilder, Taf. 8.
Bruges, Greek Anthology, London, 1893, cxxxii.
This tale was written by Callimachus in his Aetia. There is a prose résumé by Aristaenetus, Bk. I, Ep. 10. Cf. Ovid., Ep. 21.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, pt. VI, Euripides, Hyps., fr. 60.
Samia, 40ff. St. Paul instances the nurse as the examplar of gentleness; but “nurse” here is usually interpreted “mother.” Cf. I. Thess., ii, 7. ὡς ἐὰν τροφὸς θάλῃ τὰ ἑαυτῆς τέκνα.
Men., Samia, 90; Terence, Andria, 229. Cf. also Legrand, Daos, Lyon, 1910, p. 132.
Anthologia Graeca, ed. Bosch, 1795. L. 5, T. 1, E. 66.
Gorgias, 527A. Cf. also Rep., 350E and Lysis, 205D.
Maximus Tyrius, I, x, 3. καθάπερ αἱ τιτθαὶ τοὺς παῖδας διὰ μυθολογίας βαυκαλῶσι.
Ars Poetica, 340. Cf. A. W. Verrall, Collected Studies in Greek and Latin Scholarship, Cambridge 1913, p. 306.
Wachsmuth, Das alte Griechenland im neuen, Bonn, 1864, S. 57.
Cf. Roscher, Lexicon, Leipzig 1884–. s. v. Gorgo.
Phaedo, 77A. Cf. Lucian, Philops., 23; Tox., 24; Zeus, 12.
Philostratus, Life of Apoll. Tyan., Bk. iv., c. 25.
Smythe, Melic Poets, p. 158. Cf. also Oliphant’s learned article “The Story of the Strix: Ancient” in “Transactions of the Am. Philol. Asso.”, Boston, 1913, vol. xliv.
Lucian, Philop., 37 (Fowler’s Translation).