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The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Note 67 — BOOK XIV.

Charles Duke Yonge translation

There is no account of what this feast of Swings was. The Greek is ἔωραι. Some have fancied it may have had some connexion with the images of Bacchus (oscilla) hung up in the trees. See Virg. G. ii. 389.

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