foreign influence alike." See Mahaffy, "Hist. of Greek Lit." vol.
ii. ch. x. p. 257 (1st ed.); cf. Walt Whitman, "Preface to"
original edition of "Leaves of Grass," p. 29--"The English
language befriends the grand American expression: it is brawny
enough and limber and full enough, on the tough stock of a race,
who through all change of circumstances was never without the idea
of a political liberty, which is the animus of all liberty; it has
attracted the terms of daintier and gayer and subtler and more
elegant tongues."

As regards sacrifices and temples and festivals and sacred enclosures,
the People sees that it is not possible for every poor citizen to do
sacrifice and hold festival, or to set up[8] temples and to inhabit a
large and beautiful city. But it has hit upon a means of meeting the
difficulty. They sacrifice--that is, the whole state sacrifices--at
the public cost a large number of victims; but it is the People that
keeps holiday and distributes the victims by lot amongst its members.
Rich men have in some cases private gymnasia and baths with dressing-
rooms,[9] but the People takes care to have built at the public
cost[10] a number of palaestras, dressing-rooms, and bathing
establishments for its own special use, and the mob gets the benefit
of the majority of these, rather than the select few or the well-to-
do.

[8] Reading with Kirchhoff, {istasthai}.

[9] See Jebb, "Theophr. Char." vii. 18, p. 202.

[10] Reading with Kirchhoff, {demosia}.