Geop. xviii. 12. These cheeses were sometimes made in box-wood moulds. Colum. vii. 8. Footnote 1185: Philostratus describes one of these delicate little cheeses freshly made and quivering like a slice of blanc-manger:—καὶ τρυφαλὶς ἐφ᾽ ἑτέρου φύλλου νεοπαγὴς, καὶ σαλέυουσα. Icon. i. 31. p. 809. Footnote 1186: Geop. xviii. 19. ----- That the milk-women in Greece understood all the arts of their profession may be gathered from the instructions which have been left us on the best methods of detecting the presence of water in milk. If you dip a sharp rush into milk, says Berytios, and it run off easily, there is water in it. And again, if you pour a few drops upon your thumb-nail, the pure milk will maintain its position, while the adulterated will immediately glide away![1187] ----- Footnote 1187: Geop. xviii. 20. ----- Their mode of fattening cattle[1188] was as follows: first they fed them on cabbage chopped small and steeped in vinegar, to which succeeded chaff and gurgions during five days. This diet was then exchanged for barley, of which for nearly a week they were allowed four cotylæ a-day, the quantity being then gradually augmented for six other days. As of necessity the hinds were stirring early, the cattle began even in winter to be fed at cock-crowing; a second quantity of food was given them about dawn, when they were watered, and their remaining allowance towards evening. In summer their first meal commenced at day-break, the second at mid-day, and the third about sunset. They were at this time of the year suffered to drink at noon and night of water rendered somewhat tepid; in winter it was considerably warmer. ----- Footnote 1188: Geop. xvii. 12. Heresbach. p. 233. a. ----- About Mossynos, in Thrace, cattle were sometimes fed upon fish, which was likewise given to horses, and even to sheep. Herodotus, who mentions a similar fact, calls food of this description χόρτος, “fodder,”[1189] though hay or dried straw was, doubtless, its original meaning. The provender of cattle in the district about Ænia appears to have been so wholesome, that the herds which fed upon it were never afflicted by the mange.[1190] ----- Footnote 1189: Herod. v. 16. Athen. vii. 72. Ælian. de Nat. Anim. v. 25. Cf. Sch. Aristoph. Pac. 891. Footnote 1190: Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 14. 3. ----- Among the animals domesticated and rendered useful by the Greeks we must, doubtless, reckon bees,[1191] which, in the heroic ages, had not yet been confined in hives. For, whenever Homer describes them, it is either where they are streaming forth from a rock,[1192] or settling in bands and clusters on the spring flowers. So, likewise, in Virgil, they Hunt the golden dew; In summer time on tops of lilies feed, And creep within their bells to suck the balmy seed. ----- Footnote 1191: Athen. iii. 59. Sch. Aristoph. Vesp. 107. Footnote 1192: