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MTSIA.
Vegetation is rapidly bursting into life; the laburnum,
which is here dwarf, is coming into leaf; the olive and fig
grow wild. We met several caravans of camels, loaded with
cotton. Each camel carries three hundred and sixty okes,
or about half a ton weight, for a day together without
stopping to rest.
Pergamus, February 26th.—I am again in a khan, and
must say that I never liked an inn half so much; it is plea-
sant to see all the furniture around me my own, and to feel
that my room is my castle. Here the traveller finds only
bare walls, with a few nails arranged for hanging things
upon.
"When I return from the stroll I generally take, to stretch
my legs after the day's ride, I find carpet, bedding, and
writing apparatus arranged for me, and a meal prepared in
a room that appears well furnished: and I have no fear of
leaving anything behind, for I take everything in the room
mc
Thargelion, Alexon, son of Damon, declared it to be a law for relations
by marriage [?], that the female mourners should wear clean grey cloth:
that the men and boys engaged in the mourning should also wear grey,
unless they prefer white; that they should perform the rites appointed
by law for the departed at the latest in three months; that the men
should terminate their mourning in the fourth month, and the women
in the fifth; that the women, or the trains appointed in the law as a
matter of necessity, should then rise from the lamentation and go forth;
that the Grynaeconomus, chosen by the people, should, at the purifica-
tion preceding the Thesmophoria, pray for prosperity and the enjoy-
ment of their existing possessions on behalf of those men who abide by,
and those women who obey, this law, and imprecate the contrary upon
those men and women who do not obey ; and that it should be forbidden
to such women, as being profane, to sacrifice to any of the gods for ten
years ; and that the Treasurer chosen after Demetrius, bearing a crown,
should inscribe this law upon two pillars, and place one of them before
the gates of the temple of [Ceres] Thesmophoros, and the other before
the temple of Artemis [i. e. Diana] Lochia. And let the Treasurer carry
the sum expended to the pillars [or columns] in the first Chamber of
Accounts."
MTSIA.
Vegetation is rapidly bursting into life; the laburnum,
which is here dwarf, is coming into leaf; the olive and fig
grow wild. We met several caravans of camels, loaded with
cotton. Each camel carries three hundred and sixty okes,
or about half a ton weight, for a day together without
stopping to rest.
Pergamus, February 26th.—I am again in a khan, and
must say that I never liked an inn half so much; it is plea-
sant to see all the furniture around me my own, and to feel
that my room is my castle. Here the traveller finds only
bare walls, with a few nails arranged for hanging things
upon.
"When I return from the stroll I generally take, to stretch
my legs after the day's ride, I find carpet, bedding, and
writing apparatus arranged for me, and a meal prepared in
a room that appears well furnished: and I have no fear of
leaving anything behind, for I take everything in the room
mc
Thargelion, Alexon, son of Damon, declared it to be a law for relations
by marriage [?], that the female mourners should wear clean grey cloth:
that the men and boys engaged in the mourning should also wear grey,
unless they prefer white; that they should perform the rites appointed
by law for the departed at the latest in three months; that the men
should terminate their mourning in the fourth month, and the women
in the fifth; that the women, or the trains appointed in the law as a
matter of necessity, should then rise from the lamentation and go forth;
that the Grynaeconomus, chosen by the people, should, at the purifica-
tion preceding the Thesmophoria, pray for prosperity and the enjoy-
ment of their existing possessions on behalf of those men who abide by,
and those women who obey, this law, and imprecate the contrary upon
those men and women who do not obey ; and that it should be forbidden
to such women, as being profane, to sacrifice to any of the gods for ten
years ; and that the Treasurer chosen after Demetrius, bearing a crown,
should inscribe this law upon two pillars, and place one of them before
the gates of the temple of [Ceres] Thesmophoros, and the other before
the temple of Artemis [i. e. Diana] Lochia. And let the Treasurer carry
the sum expended to the pillars [or columns] in the first Chamber of
Accounts."