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 Callimachus ascribes the same head-dress to shepherds in the following lines:

[Greek: Eprepe toi proechousa karês eureia kalyptrê) Poimenikon pilêma.]—Frag. cxxv.

The wide covering projecting from your head, the pastoral hat, became you.

This pastoral hat, if we may judge from the representation of the two shepherds in the bas-relief just referred to (Fig. 4.), was in its shape very like the "bonny blue bonnet" of the Scotch. Figure 5 in Plate IX. is taken from a painted Greek vase, and represents the story of the delivery of Œdipus to be exposed. His name [Greek: OIDIPODAS] is written beside him. The shepherd [Greek: ETPHORBOS], who holds the naked child in his arms, wears a flat and very broad petasus hanging behind his neck. It is of an irregular shape, as if from long usage. The shepherd Zethus wears a petasus hanging behind his back in a bas-relief belonging to the Borghese collection, published by Winckelmann (Mon. Inediti, ii. 85). See Plate IX. Fig. 6.

The Athenian ephebi wore the broad-brimmed hat, together with the scarf or chlamys. Meleager, in an epigram on a beautiful boy, named Antiochus, says, that he would be undistinguishable from Cupid, if Cupid wore a scarf and petasus instead of his bow and arrows and his wings.

When a young Greek conquered in the games, his friends semetimes bestowed a hat (petasus) upon him as a present.

In consequence of the use of the petasus as a part of the ordinary costume of the Athenian youth, we find it in a great variety of works of ancient art illustrative of the religion and mythology of Greece. For example:—

1. In the inner frieze of the Parthenon, the remains of which are now in the British Museum, it is worn by many of the riders on horseback. Figure 7, in Plate IX. shows one of