eight mouthfulls'; but the elder Philostratus uses the word in contrast
to 'leavened'.]

[Footnote 1317: About the middle of November.]

[Footnote 1318: Spring is so described because the buds have not yet
cast their iron-grey husks.]

[Footnote 1319: In December.]

[Footnote 1320: In March.]

[Footnote 1321: The latter part of January and earlier part of
February.]

[Footnote 1322: i.e. the octopus or cuttle.]

[Footnote 1323: i.e. the darker-skinned people of Africa, the Egyptians
or Aethiopians.]

[Footnote 1324: i.e. an old man walking with a staff (the 'third leg'--
as in the riddle of the Sphinx).]

[Footnote 1325: February to March.]

[Footnote 1326: i.e. the snail. The season is the middle of May.]

[Footnote 1327: In June.]

[Footnote 1328: July.]

[Footnote 1329: i.e. a robber.]

[Footnote 1330: September.]

[Footnote 1331: The end of October.]

[Footnote 1332: That is, the succession of stars which make up the full
year.]

[Footnote 1333: The end of October or beginning of November.]

[Footnote 1334: July-August.]

[Footnote 1335: i.e. untimely, premature. Juvenal similarly speaks of
'cruda senectus' (caused by gluttony).]

[Footnote 1336: The thought is parallel to that of 'O, what a goodly
outside falsehood hath.']

[Footnote 1337: The 'common feast' is one to which all present
subscribe. Theognis (line 495) says that one of the chief pleasures of a
banquet is the general conversation. Hence the present passage means
that such a feast naturally costs little, while the many present will
make pleasurable conversation.]

[Footnote 1338: i.e. 'do not cut your finger-nails'.]

[Footnote 1339: i.e. things which it would be sacrilege to disturb, such
as tombs.]

[Footnote 1340: H.G. Evelyn-White prefers to switch ll. 768 and 769,
reading l. 769 first then l. 768.--DBK]

[Footnote 1341: The month is divided into three periods, the waxing, the
mid-month, and the waning, which answer to the phases of the moon.]

[Footnote 1342: i.e. the ant.]

[Footnote 1343: Such seems to be the meaning here, though the epithet is
otherwise rendered 'well-rounded'. Corn was threshed by means of a
sleigh with two runners having three or four rollers between them, like
the modern Egyptian "nurag".]

[Footnote 1401: This halt verse is added by the Scholiast on Aratus,
172.]

[Footnote 1402: The "Catasterismi" ("Placings among the Stars") is a
collection of legends relating to the various constel