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The noose of the cord to be laid on the crown and the cord itself should be of woven esparto,1 since this is rot-proof. The noose itself and the cord must be strong; and the clog attached must be of common or evergreen oak, twenty-seven inches long, not stripped of the bark, and three inches thick.
1 Yates (Textrinum Antiquorum) believes that the plant meant is Spanish broom (Genista). But it is indeed the grass “esparto,” Stipa tenacissima.
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 7. E. C. Marchant, G. W. Bowersock, tr. Constitution of the Athenians. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1925.
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