Note 1776 — Chapter V · THE VARIOUS PROCESSES OF AGRICULTURE.

Casaub. ad Theoph. Char. p. 223, seq. Theocrit. Eidyll. xxv. 27. Cf. Feith. Antiq. Hom. iv. i. 276, sqq. Vineyards in Athens still require guards. Speaking of his approach to Athens from the Peiræeus, Chandler observes:—“In a tree was a kind of couch, sheltered with boughs, belonging to a man employed to watch there during the vintage.” ii. 27.