Note 182 — Chapter LXX · RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS. (continued 2)
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Xen. Anab. iv, 5, 26. Κάλαμοι γόνατα οὐκ ἔχοντες.
This Armenian practice of sucking the beer through a reed, to which the observation of modern travellers supplies analogies (see Krüger’s note), illustrates the Fragment of Archilochus (No. 28, ed. Schneidewin, Poetæ Græc. Minor).
ὥσπερ αὐλῷ βρύτον ἢ Θρῆιξ ἀνὴρ ἢ Φρὺξ ἔβρυζε, etc.
The similarity of Armenian customs to those of the Thracians and Phrygians, is not surprising.