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The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 197 — BOOK XXXII

Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation

τῶν ἐπίπλων, the ornamenta of a bride, consisting of clothes, jewels, slaves, and other things, in accordance with her station. See Horace, Sat. 2, 3, 214. For the three instalments in which it was necessary to pay dowries, see Cicero ad Att. ii. 23; 2 Phil. § 113.

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