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136 ANCIENT EPHESUS.
not have among us a good man: if any such there
be, let him go and live elsewhere.' " 1 Parrhasius
the painter exclaimed of his fellow citizens, —■
" The Ephesians admire virtue, but practise licen-
tiousness."
This licentiousness of character appears to have
been derived from their intercourse with the
Persians. Thus Lysander, on landing at Ephesus,
(404 B.C.) '( found the city in danger of being
enervated by Persian manners derived from the
free intercourse with that people, resulting from
their vicinity to Lydia,3 and the royal satraps
settled there." Democritus of Ephesus, in his
first book on the Temple of Diana, speaks of the
effeminacy and luxury of the Ephesians, and their
ambition of being arrayed in vests of varied stuffs,
of different colours, and of the most costly material,
several kinds of which he describes at length.3
1 Strabo, page G42.
2 Persian luxury was derived from Lydia.—(Herod, i. 71.)
3 " The garments of the Ionians are of violet, purple, or scarlet
colour, interwoven with diamond-shaped figures ; those which are
placed over them are equally ornamented with various forms and
figures (of men and animals). Their robes, called the serajrian,
are light yellow, purple, or white. Of the calasires, (a linen robe
descending to the ankles,) they have two kinds : the Corinthian are
purple, violet, or hyacinth, and occasionally of flame-colour, or sea-
blue ; but the Persian are of all others the most beautiful. They
have also what is called the actcean, which of all Persian garments
is the most precious. It is closely woven, that it may be strong
as well as light, and is bordered with grains of gold like millet,
which are threaded with a purple ribbon, and woven in the thick-
not have among us a good man: if any such there
be, let him go and live elsewhere.' " 1 Parrhasius
the painter exclaimed of his fellow citizens, —■
" The Ephesians admire virtue, but practise licen-
tiousness."
This licentiousness of character appears to have
been derived from their intercourse with the
Persians. Thus Lysander, on landing at Ephesus,
(404 B.C.) '( found the city in danger of being
enervated by Persian manners derived from the
free intercourse with that people, resulting from
their vicinity to Lydia,3 and the royal satraps
settled there." Democritus of Ephesus, in his
first book on the Temple of Diana, speaks of the
effeminacy and luxury of the Ephesians, and their
ambition of being arrayed in vests of varied stuffs,
of different colours, and of the most costly material,
several kinds of which he describes at length.3
1 Strabo, page G42.
2 Persian luxury was derived from Lydia.—(Herod, i. 71.)
3 " The garments of the Ionians are of violet, purple, or scarlet
colour, interwoven with diamond-shaped figures ; those which are
placed over them are equally ornamented with various forms and
figures (of men and animals). Their robes, called the serajrian,
are light yellow, purple, or white. Of the calasires, (a linen robe
descending to the ankles,) they have two kinds : the Corinthian are
purple, violet, or hyacinth, and occasionally of flame-colour, or sea-
blue ; but the Persian are of all others the most beautiful. They
have also what is called the actcean, which of all Persian garments
is the most precious. It is closely woven, that it may be strong
as well as light, and is bordered with grains of gold like millet,
which are threaded with a purple ribbon, and woven in the thick-