Note 28 — FIRST SECTION.
Reading edition
Bk. I chs. 93, 94. The ἐνεργαζόμεναι παιδίσκαι (maids working at their handicraft) mentioned in this passage are maids who, to use Heine’s expression, practice their horizontal craft. Herodotus’ story is also found mentioned in Strabo Bk. XI. p. 533., Aelian, Var. Hist., bk, IV. ch. 1., and Athenaeus, Deipnos. bk. XII. p. 516.