2607 (return) [ This song is called by pseudo-Herodotus EIRESIONE. The
word properly indicates a garland wound with wool which was worn at
harvest-festivals, but came to be applied first to the harvest song and
then to any begging song. The present is akin the Swallow-Song
(XELIDONISMA), sung at the beginning of spring, and answered to the
still surviving English May-Day songs. Cp. Athenaeus, viii. 360 B.]
2608 (return) [ The lice which they caught in their clothes they left
behind, but carried home in their clothes those which they could not
catch.]
2701 (return) [ See the cylix reproduced by Gerhard, _Abhandlungen_,
taf. 5,4. Cp. Stesichorus, Frag. 3 (Smyth).]