Note 49 — Second Part.
Reading edition
Porphyrius, De Abstinentia bk. IV. ch. 15.,
παράδειγμα τοὺς Σύρους λαβέ· Ὅταν φάγωσιν ἰχθὺν ἐκεῖνοι διά τινα Αὑτῶν ἀκρασίαν, τοὺς πόδας καὶ γαστέρα Οιδοῦσιν· εἶτα σακκίον ἔλαβον· εἰς δ’ ὁδὸν Ἐκάθισαν αὐτοὶ ἐπὶ κόπρου καὶ τὴν θεὸν Ἐξιλάσαντο τῷ ταπεινῶσαι σφόδρα.
(As an example take the Syrians: These people, when they have eaten fish, in consequence of some unwholesome quality in themselves, swell in feet and belly. Then they take quickly a wallet; and down they sit by the road-side on dung, and so appease the goddess by their exceeding humbleness). At Athens ἕλκη ἔχειν ἐν τοῖς ἀντικνημίοις (to have sores on the shin-bones) would seem to have been a usual thing, according to Theophrastus, Charact. XIX.