CHAPTER III. THE NURSE AND THE FAMILY.

Duties to the Child—Bathing—Swaddling—First Nurture—Wet nurses—Food—Child in the Nurse’s Arms—Carrying of Child— Motion Profitable for Young Children—Moulding of Child’s Body—Cradles—σκάφη ... λίκνον,—Rocking of the Cradle— Amusements Furnished by the Nurse—Making of Toys—Balls— Rattles—Dolls—Dandling Fruit—Theatres—General Care Over Children—Keeping them Clean—Fondling Children—Pet Names— Humoring Child—Method of Finding Out What Children Want— Crying of Children—Amulets—Time Spent in Nursery.

The Nurse and the Grown Daughter—Nausicaa’s Nurse—Tragic Nurse—Care of Young Maiden—Go-between in Maiden’s Love Affairs—Comfort and Consolation.

The Nurse and the Grown Son—Eurycleia—Cilissa—Moschio’s Nurse—Old Nurse in Demosthenes—Esteem for Nurse....

The Nurse in the Household—Washing—Eurycleia’s Duties—Duties Enumerated by Demeter—Tragedy—Comedy—General Characteristics of the Nurse—Eurycleia—Nurse in Herodotus— Orestes’ Nurse—Nurse in Medea—in Trachiniae—in Hippolytus— Aristophanes’ πιστὴ, τροφός—Nurse’s Care Shown in Samia—in Real Life—Instances of Unkindness Few—Plutarch—Stobaeus— Aristophanes—Chattering and Tippling Propensities— Metaphors of Nurse 16