Τηλία. Schol. Aristoph. Vesp. 147. Footnote 595: Athen. vi. 5. Footnote 596: Plut. Arat. § 6. Footnote 597: Sch. Aristoph. Nub. 318. Footnote 598: Cf. Poll. i. 51. Footnote 599: Athen. ii. 45. The travelling fishmongers even frequented the country-houses and villages, viii. 57. Schol. Aristoph. Av. 13, seq. Eq. 1241, sqq. It was probably persons of this class that most commonly used their mouths as a purse, as the Siamese do their ears. Casaub. ad Theoph. Char. p. 194. Aristoph. Vesp. 791. Their baskets were commonly of rushes. Athen. vii. 72. See a representation of them, Antich. di Ercol. t. i. tav. 21. p. 111. Footnote 600: Lucian, Amor. § 10. Plut. Arat. § 6. Footnote 601: Poll. ix. 48. Athen. ix. 22. Footnote 602: Chandler, ii. 104. Footnote 603: Athen. iv. 58. Footnote 604: Lucian. Bis Accus. § 16. Sch. Arist. Nub. 978. Footnote 605: Lucian. Demon. § 17. Footnote 606: Poll. iii. 124. Footnote 607: Andocid. De Myst. § 9, with the note of Reiske. Plut. Timol. § 14. Footnote 608: Athen. xiii. 94. Footnote 609: Xenoph. de Off. Mag. Eq. iii. 2. Footnote 610: Dem. de Fals. Leg. § 72. Cf. Athen. xi. 109. Winkel. Hist. de l’Art. iii. 340. ----- As there was a certain class of gods who presided over the market-place, so likewise were there particular laws enacted to regulate its transactions, with magistrates especially appointed to carry those laws into execution. These servants of the commonwealth, five in the city and five in the Peiræeus, were denominated Agoranomoi, and paraded all day to and fro, armed with whips of many thongs,[611] amid the crowds of buyers and sellers, both to preserve tranquillity in the market, and prevent or punish those petty acts of fraud and injustice to which persons who subsist by humble traffic are too often in all countries addicted. Thus we find that, not the vintners only, but even the cornchandlers kept small measures;[612] though, as there was a public meter appointed by the state, it could only be when purchasers neglected to employ him, that they lay open to this sort of imposition. Chapmen detected in cheating, or otherwise behaving with impropriety, were scourged by the Agoranomoi on the spot; and it is to be presumed, that, as often as necessary, these officers were attended by a detachment of that powerful and vigilant Scythian police, at one period a thousand strong, which Athens constantly maintained, and which formerly pitched its tents in the agora.[613] Another duty of the Agoranomoi[614] was to collect the tolls paid by Bœotians, Æginetæ, or Megareans, upon whatever articles they brought to the Athenian market. It should here be observed, however, that neither corn nor bread was in later times, at least, placed under the inspection of these magistrates, since there were others called Sitophylaces,[615] whose business it was to see that the public were not defrauded in such articles. The number of these