SERIES OF CHAPTERS.

CHAPTER XIV.

It was a sacrilege to watch any of these games in dyed clothing; and money was given from the treasury to the people for buying a seat in the theater.

CHAPTER XV.

A massive sacrifice was also performed; for which all the cities, which were colonies of the Athenians, were accustomed to send an ox. Whence also the distribution of meat and the feast for the people; in which the cups usually used were called Panathenaic.

CHAPTER XVI.

In the Greater ones, almost the same things were customary.

CHAPTER XVII.

Except that the peplus robe was then brought down. A certain error of the scholiast of Aristophanes is indicated.

CHAPTER XVIII.

What that was, and what was interwoven in it. It is investigated whether the book inscribed "On the Peplus" is by Aristotle the Stagirite. Then what color it was. Lutatius's error. By whom it was woven, and who were the prefects of the weaving. The Ergasinae female weavers. Also when. The error of the scholiast of Euripides.

CHAPTER XIX.

It was accustomed to be brought down with a great procession; which was instituted outside the city, in the Ceramicus, and specifically near the Leocorium that was there. What that procession was like. The peplus was suspended from a ship, which was prepared for Minerva, and led through the Ceramicus to the temple of Ceres Eleusinia. And that ship went on land, moved by underground mechanisms, with oars propelling it,