4 ATHENS. 
CHAP, this also was antiently the custom, as we learn 
\. .y / from the account Dic^archus has left us of the 
women of Tlu'bes\ Divested of this attire, her 
figure at home, contrasted with the disguise 
she exhibited abroad, is singularly striking. 
Among all the travellers who were admitted 
into female society at Alliens, or who have 
related from report what they did not actually 
see, there has been no writer more faithful 
or more happy in his representation than 
Chandler. It seems as if the subject had, for 
once, raised his feelings to the temperature 
necessary for animated description ; and he 
briefly sketches a glowing portrait of a Grecian 
virgin in her secluded apartments Her 
employment here is seldom varied : the 
(1) Vid, Diccearclii Stat. Grcec. apud Geog. Alinor. p.l6. Oxon. 
1703. 
(2) "There the g:irl, like Thetis, treading on a soft carpet, has 
her white and delicate feet naked ; the nails tinged with red. Her 
trowsers, which in winter are of red cloth, and in summer of fine 
calico or thin sanze, descend from the hip to the ancle, hanging 
loosely abi)ut her iimhs ; the lower portion embroidered with flowers, 
and appearing beneath the shift, which has the sleeves wide and open, 
and the seams and edges curiously adorned with needle-work. Her 
vest is of silk, exactly fitted to the form of the bosom and the shape 
of the body, which it rather covers than conceals, and is shorter than 
the shift. The sleeve* button occasionally to the hand, and are lined 
with red or yellow satin. A rich zone encompasses her waist, ami is 
fastened 
