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of the MISCELLANY customs of GREECE.
borne used to perfume their wines, and wine so used was termed o'iives
j^u^iviVigs, according to MYun (1), and sometimes vMby^K, for that word,
according to Hes}rchius's explication, signifies #6tfiv if firs^sfro fjwpov, a po-
tion mixed with odours. Different from this were the Murrhina of the
Romans, as also the tJ^upvifTfAsvogoivog, wine mingled with myrrh, mention-
ed in St. Mark's gospel, wherewith the malefactors were commonly in-
toxicated before they suffered. Several other ingredients were mixed
with wine, sometimes «X<p»Va, meal, whence aivog «V/]A<pirw(ji<£»os, wine
thickened with meal, which was very much u*ed by the Persians (2).
They had also many sorts of made wines, as oinog xgifli'vog, cerevisia, wine
made of barley, and olvog i-^yjroj, palm-wine, sometimes termed ^og §1 -
rov, for itog was a genera! name for all made wines.
CHAP. XVIII.
of the customs before entertainments.
The person by whom the entertainment was provided, was commonly
named a igiooTwg, Igi<?v. |svj^wv, tjJs tfuvatf/as jj'ysfAftiv, tfuf^Trotf/s; <*^wv, rfuffcifqtf/a -;•
X°5> ^.V tragedians, oixoifsy^wv, &,c.
The persons entertained by him were termed ^airn/xovsg, daira.Xsls, ^ -
tforai, rfeiv5si*»oi, &c. also very often xXtjtcu, rfuyxXijToi, ^r#xXf)<rQi, in which
names is expre-sed the immediate cause of their meeting, which was x/.jf-
tfig, in Latin vocatio, an invitation or calling by the entertainer.
The persons employed to invite the guests were by the Romans term-
ed vocatores, and by the Greeks xXs»to£S£, or Stiirvox'hyTogeg. The same men
were also, though not so frequently, called Z"heargoi and sXeictr^o}, from
«Xfos, which is the name of the table on which the provision was placed in
the kitchen. Thus eXea<rgo», according to Pamphilus in Athena±us (3), are
ol sir) <tjj» /3atfiX(xsjv xaXsvrsg rgdveQav, they who invite to the king's table.
Sometimes to invite was termed xa.rayg«i<psiv, to write down, from the cus-
tom of inscribing the names of the persons to be invited upon a tablet.
The hour was signified at the invitation ; and because they then num-
bered the hours by the motion of the sun, there is frequent mention of
tfxiol, the shade of the sun, and coi^siby, the letter of the dial, on these or.
casions : thus in the following passage of Aristophanes (4) :
'Oretc >i cTeint^sv roi^im \<Tstp»c %">pw tiri ffvrtci.
Relations often went without invitation, as hath been observed by Athe-
nseus (5) and Eustathius, from that verse of Homer where he describes
an entertainment at Agamemnon's tent ftf) :
Valiant Menelaus came to him aurofMXfos, that is, «vsu <ra xXi^vou, without
(1) Var. Hist. lib. xii. cap. 31. liastes, item Suidas, v. AtxAffas <rma. et Hesr
(2) Athenaeus, lib. x. initio, cap. 9. chius, v Sfxajrav sotxt'ov.
(3) Athenteus, lib. iv. cap 21. (5) Lib. iv. cap. 26.
'4) Concionatricibus, p. 744. Conf. ibi Scho- (6) Iliad, p<. v. 408.
borne used to perfume their wines, and wine so used was termed o'iives
j^u^iviVigs, according to MYun (1), and sometimes vMby^K, for that word,
according to Hes}rchius's explication, signifies #6tfiv if firs^sfro fjwpov, a po-
tion mixed with odours. Different from this were the Murrhina of the
Romans, as also the tJ^upvifTfAsvogoivog, wine mingled with myrrh, mention-
ed in St. Mark's gospel, wherewith the malefactors were commonly in-
toxicated before they suffered. Several other ingredients were mixed
with wine, sometimes «X<p»Va, meal, whence aivog «V/]A<pirw(ji<£»os, wine
thickened with meal, which was very much u*ed by the Persians (2).
They had also many sorts of made wines, as oinog xgifli'vog, cerevisia, wine
made of barley, and olvog i-^yjroj, palm-wine, sometimes termed ^og §1 -
rov, for itog was a genera! name for all made wines.
CHAP. XVIII.
of the customs before entertainments.
The person by whom the entertainment was provided, was commonly
named a igiooTwg, Igi<?v. |svj^wv, tjJs tfuvatf/as jj'ysfAftiv, tfuf^Trotf/s; <*^wv, rfuffcifqtf/a -;•
X°5> ^.V tragedians, oixoifsy^wv, &,c.
The persons entertained by him were termed ^airn/xovsg, daira.Xsls, ^ -
tforai, rfeiv5si*»oi, &c. also very often xXtjtcu, rfuyxXijToi, ^r#xXf)<rQi, in which
names is expre-sed the immediate cause of their meeting, which was x/.jf-
tfig, in Latin vocatio, an invitation or calling by the entertainer.
The persons employed to invite the guests were by the Romans term-
ed vocatores, and by the Greeks xXs»to£S£, or Stiirvox'hyTogeg. The same men
were also, though not so frequently, called Z"heargoi and sXeictr^o}, from
«Xfos, which is the name of the table on which the provision was placed in
the kitchen. Thus eXea<rgo», according to Pamphilus in Athena±us (3), are
ol sir) <tjj» /3atfiX(xsjv xaXsvrsg rgdveQav, they who invite to the king's table.
Sometimes to invite was termed xa.rayg«i<psiv, to write down, from the cus-
tom of inscribing the names of the persons to be invited upon a tablet.
The hour was signified at the invitation ; and because they then num-
bered the hours by the motion of the sun, there is frequent mention of
tfxiol, the shade of the sun, and coi^siby, the letter of the dial, on these or.
casions : thus in the following passage of Aristophanes (4) :
'Oretc >i cTeint^sv roi^im \<Tstp»c %">pw tiri ffvrtci.
Relations often went without invitation, as hath been observed by Athe-
nseus (5) and Eustathius, from that verse of Homer where he describes
an entertainment at Agamemnon's tent ftf) :
Valiant Menelaus came to him aurofMXfos, that is, «vsu <ra xXi^vou, without
(1) Var. Hist. lib. xii. cap. 31. liastes, item Suidas, v. AtxAffas <rma. et Hesr
(2) Athenaeus, lib. x. initio, cap. 9. chius, v Sfxajrav sotxt'ov.
(3) Athenteus, lib. iv. cap 21. (5) Lib. iv. cap. 26.
'4) Concionatricibus, p. 744. Conf. ibi Scho- (6) Iliad, p<. v. 408.