a comb, was presented by Clearchus to Ctesias to be shown to his friends at Lacedæmon, was a dance of Caryatides.[1003] ----- Footnote 996: Id. ib. Footnote 997: Poll. iv. 104. Footnote 998: See Müller. ii. 354. Footnote 999: Poll. iv. 104. Footnote 1000: Schol. Aristoph. Nub. 534. Footnote 1001: Poll. iv. 104. Footnote 1002: Vitruv. i. 1.—Poll. iv. 104. Footnote 1003: Plut. Artaxerx. § 18. ----- Amid the laxity of morals which prevailed in the later ages of Greece, the Pyrrhic,[1004] once supposed to be peculiar to warriors, degenerated into a dance of Bacchanals, with thyrsi instead of spears, or carrying torches in one hand, while with the other they sportively cast light reeds at one another. The story told in this mimetic performance referred to remote antiquity, and was both curiously and elaborately intricate, comprehending all the adventures of Bacchos and his merry crew during the Indian expedition, and assuming towards the conclusion a tragical form, developing the sad story of Pentheus.[1005] ----- Footnote 1004: Duport. ad Theoph. Char. c. 6. p. 305, sqq. Poll. iv. 99.—Athen. xiv. 29. On the Cretan warlike dances Orsites and Epicredios, id. xiv. 26.—Luc. de Saltat. § 9. Footnote 1005: Athen xiv. 29. ----- Among the dances of a grave character are enumerated the Gingra performed like the Podismos to slow and solemn music, the Lion and the Tetracomos,[1006] a warlike measure performed in honour of Heracles and supposed in its origin to have had some connexion with the Tetracomoi of Attica, that is, the Peiræeus, Phaleron, Oxypeteones, and Thymotadæ.[1007] We read, moreover, of dances in which the performers represented certain historic or mythological personages, such as Rhodope, Phædra, or Parthenope.[1008] ----- Footnote 1006: Poll. iv. 99. Footnote 1007: Poll. iv. 105. Footnote 1008: Luc. de Saltat. § 2. ----- The Anthema,[1009] or Flower-dance, appears to have been chiefly performed in private parties by women, who acted certain characters and chanted, as they moved, the following verses: Where is my lovely parsley, say? My violets, roses, where are they? My parsley, roses, violets fair, are my flowers? Tell me where. ----- Footnote 1009: Athen. xiv. 27. -----