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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 1831 — Chapter VI · PASTORAL LIFE.

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Iliad. β. 541. δ. 464. The long hair of these ancient warriors is thus mentioned by the Homeric Scholiast: τὰ ὀπίσω μέρη τῆς κεφαλῆς κομῶντες ἀνδρείας χάριν. ἴδιον δὲ τοῦτο τῆς τῶν Εὐβοέων κουρᾶς, τὸ ὄπισθεν τὰς τρίχας βαθείας ἔχειν. t. i. p. 83. Bekker.

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