The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)St. John, James Augustus
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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)
St. John, James Augustus
Greece -- Social life and customs
particularly about the eyes, to heighten the freshness of the face.[720]
To communicate additional sweetness to their persons, Greek ladies
sometimes wore about their necks carcanets of rose pastilles[721]
instead of jewelled necklaces, into the composition of which, however,
several other ingredients entered, as nard, myrrh, costos, Illyrian
iris, honey, and Chian wine.
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Footnote 676:
Poll. v. 102.
Μὴ τοίνων τὸ πρόσωπον ἅπαν ψιμύθῳ κατάπλαττε,
Ὥστε προσοπεῖον, κ’ οὐχι πρόσωπον ἔχειν.
Anthol. Græc. xi. 408.
Footnote 677:
The pigment with which the interior of the eyelid is blackened at
present is the soot of Ladanum, or incense, which the ladies
themselves procure by casting a few grains of those precious
substances upon coals of fire, and intercepting the smoke with a
plate, on which the soot speedily accumulates. Chandler, ii. 140.
Footnote 678:
Τὴν κεφαλὴν βάπτεις, τὸ δὲ γῆρας οὔποτε βάψεις
Οὔδὲ παρειάων ἐκτανύσεις ῥυτίδας.
Anthol. Græc. xi. 408.
Footnote 679:
See Book iii. chapter v. and Pollux, v. 102.
Footnote 680:
Ῥόδον παρειαῖς φυτεύει, αὐθωρὸν ἀνθοῦν, καὶ θᾶττον ἀπανθοῦν κατὰ τὸ
Λοκρὸν. Poll. v. 102. This fugitive species of rose is alluded to by
Lycophron, in his Cassandra, 1429:
Λοκρὸν δ᾽ ὁποῖα παῦρον ἀνθήσας ῥόδον.
See the note of Meursius, t. iii. p. 1347. ed. C. G. Müller; and
Jungermann ad Poll. t. iv. p. 1010.
Footnote 681:
To this Lucillius alludes in the Anthology:
Οὔποτε φῦκος
Καὶ ψίμυθος τεύξει τὴν Ἑκάβην Ἑλένην.
Anthol. Græc. xi. 408.
Footnote 682:
Poll. v. 101.
Footnote 683:
Cf. Theoph. Hist. Plant. vii. 8. 3.
Footnote 684:
Poll. v. 101. vii. 95.
Footnote 685:
Ion, in his Omphalè. Poll. v. 101. Luc. Amor. 39.
Footnote 686:
Dioscor. i. 93. And lamp-black. Alex. Frag. ap. Athen. xiii. 23. Cf.
Luc. Bis Accus. § 31.
Footnote 687:
Dioscor. i. 101.
Footnote 688:
Ἡ λιθοκόλλα, μίγμα οὖσα μαρμάρου ἢ λίθου Παρίου καὶ ταυροκόλλης,
δύναται διὰ μηλωτίδος πεπυρωμένης τρίχας ἀνακολλᾷν τὰς ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς.
Dioscor. v. 164.
Footnote 689:
Dioscor. v. 137.
Footnote 690:
Id. v. 175.
Footnote 691:
Id. i. 12.
Footnote 692:
Id. ii. 101.
Footnote 693:
Id. ii. 189.
Footnote 694:
Id. i. 77.
Footnote 695:
Τῆλις. Id. i. 57.
Footnote 696:
Ἄμπέλος μελαίνα. Dioscor. iv. 185.
Footnote 697:
Id. iii. 102.
Footnote 698:
Id. i. 15.
Footnote 699:
Id. v. 97.
Footnote 700:
Dioscor. ii. 132.
Footnote 701:
Id. ii. 137.
Footnote 702:
Id. ii. 21. 97.
Footnote 703:
Ἄλυσσον. iii. 105.
Footnote 704:
Dioscor. ii. 200.
Footnote 705:
Id. i. 13.
Footnote 706:
Id. ii. 125.
Footnote 707:
Id. i. 128.
Footnote 708:
Id. i. 1.
Footnote 709:
Id. iv. 150.
Footnote 710:
Id. ii. 102.
Footnote 711:
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