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

Note 669 — Chapter III · INDUSTRY: PERFUMERS, BARBERS, GOLDSMITHS, LAPIDARIES, ETC.

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Athen. xv. 42. To this perfume Strattis alludes in his Medea:—

——Καὶ λέγ’, ὅτι μύρον φέρεις αὐτῇ

Τοιοῦτον, οἷον οὐ Μέγαλλος πώποτε

Ἥψησεν, οὐδὲ Δινίας Αἰγύπτιος

Οὔτ᾽ εἶδεν, οὔτ᾽ ἐκτήσατο.—

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