Note 349 — EXCURSUS C.
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The dirtiness of his clothes, &c., is made a great point of. Cp. Hesych. περισχαδόν· τὸν ὑποκρινόμενον τόν Περσέα ὡς πτωχὸν καὶ φθισίμορφον. This too lends force to Lucian’s ὠχρῶν ἁπάντων καὶ λεπτῶν τῶν ἑβδομαίων ἐκείνων τραγῳδῶν. (De Conscr. Hist. 1, vol. 2, p. 2. Vide Nauck, Trag. Frag. pp. 392-3.)