[46] Aesch., Sep. con. Theb., 592.
[47] Legg., 727, E; Jowett’s Transl., V, 299.
[48] See Plato’s Charmides; and Euripides’ Medea, 635 (Dindorf).
[49] Pindar uses καιρός and μέτρον as synonymous terms.
[50] Opp. et D., 271.
[51] Hom. Il., IV., 160, 235; VII., 76, 411; XVI., 386. Hes., Opp. et D., 265. These references are copied from Welcker, Griechische Götterlehre, I., p. 178, q. v.
[52] See Maine’s Ancient Law, chap. X., The Early History of Delict and Crime.
[53] Preller, Griechische Mythologie, I., p. 523 (3rd ed.), with which cf. Welcker, op. cit., I., 234; and Mr. Walter Pater’s Demeter and Persephone, and A Study of Dionysus, in the Fortnightly Review for Jan., Feb., and Dec. 1876. From their popular character, the country gods were favoured by the despots (Curtius, Gr. Gesch., I., p. 338).
[54] Cf. Wordsworth—
‘Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong,