Note 163 — FIRST SECTION.
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Hetaerae were bound by law to wear gay, party-coloured clothes, Suidas, s. v. ἑταιρῶν ἄνθινον. Νόμος Ἀθήνησι, τὰς ἑταίρας ἄνθινα φέρειν· (under the expression ἑταιρῶν ἄνθινον—flowered robe of hetaerae: it was a law at Athens that the hetaerae must wear flowered robes); at Locri Zaleucus prescribed the same costume, Suidas, s. v. Ζάλευκος (under the word Zaleucus); it was also law among the Syracusans, Athenaeus, Deipnos., bk. XII. ch. 4. Comp. Petit, “Legg. Attic.,” (Laws of Athens), p. 476. The same is stated of the Lacedaemonians by Clemens Alexandrinus, Paedog., bk. II. ch. 10. Comp. Wesseling, on Diodorus Sic., IV. 4.—Sidon. Apoll., Epist., XX. 3. Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagor., ch. 31.—A. Borremans. Var. Lect., ch. 10. p. 94.—Artemidorus, Oneirocrit., bk. II. ch. 3.