there huge pyramids of apples and pears, and quinces and pomegranates, and dates and plums, and cherries and mulberries, black and white, and grape-clusters of every hue, and oranges and citrons, and rich purple figs, and melons and water-melons.[558] ----- Footnote 551: Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 137. Casaub. ad Theoph. Char. p. 125. Footnote 552: Cf. Demosth. cont. Con. § 3. Footnote 553: Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 295. Xenoph. de Off. Mag. Eq. iii. 2, with the note of Schneider.—Throughout Greece, persons to whom especial honour was designed had their statues erected in the agora, as Theodectes at Phaselis. Plut. Alexand. § 17. The statue of the market Hermes stood near the Stoa Pœcile, and was usually smeared with pitch, from the practice of sculptors who came constantly to take casts from it with a preparation of that substance. Lucian. Jup. Trag. § 33. Footnote 554: Aristoph. Lysist. 678. Footnote 555: Casaub. ad. Theoph. Char. p. 349. Footnote 556: Poll. vii. 125. On the terms connected with settling and buying, &c. iii. 124, sqq. Footnote 557: Ἱματιόπωλις ἀγορά or σπειρόπωλις Poll. vii. 78. Cf. Xenoph. de Vectigal, iv. 8. Footnote 558: See Book v. chapter ii. ----- Touching upon these booths were the stalls of the green-grocers, of Eucharides[559] for example, where every vegetable produced in the kitchen-garden and the fields met the eye in profusion; among which were truffles of all kinds,[560] with the roots of the caraway[561] and jagged lettuce, which were eaten like those of the Egyptian bean[562] and the papyrus,[563] radishes,[564] long and round, bunches of turnips,[565] asparagus, broccoli,[566] heads of garlic, and summer savory, for the poor, all kinds of beans and pease, the vervain[567] for purification and amulets, wild myrtle sprigs instead of asparagus,[568] shoots of the black briony,[569] chokeweed to be boiled with vegetables for rendering them tender, tufts of the wild fig-tree, which performed the same service for beef,[570] goats-beard, clematis for seasoning,[571] with bunches of elm-leaves commonly used as a vegetable.[572] Next to these, were, perhaps, the stands of the flower-sellers,[573] where garlands of the richest colours and fragrance were ready wreathed for the brow,[574] some produced by careful culture in gardens, and others gathered where they grew wild by the women, who in time of peace spread themselves in troops over the whole country for this purpose.[575] In one corner were droves of horses, asses, and mules,[576] ready to have their teeth inspected by the buyers,[577] or groups of youthful slaves from all quarters of the world. In another, near a lofty poplar,[578] stood the auction-mart where goods of every description,[579] including even libraries,[580] were knocked down by the hammer. Close at hand, perhaps, stood the tempting booths of the chapmen who purveyed for the kitchen of the Athenians with hams, and