Here Mr. Field quotes from Bois as follows: “It is a description of certain jugglers, who used to carry about swallows trained to come and go when let loose, and settle on their heads, and take meat out of their mouths. So I conjecture,” Mr. Field adds, “I have nothing to add to this. For those whom Athanæus” (from Theognis) “mentions, as gathering a dole for the swallow (p.360, B.) seem not to answer to what is here meant. They, by way of begging, used to chant a sort of song about the coming of the swallow. It was the custom of the Rhodians particularly.”