[17] When explaining the flogging of the Sacæan victim, Mr. Frazer does not say that the purpose was 'to stimulate his reproductive powers.' He speaks of a 'mitigation' of burning.
[18] Spencer and Gill en regard these authorised and enforced breaches of sacred laws as testifying to the existence in the past of a time when no such laws existed, when promiscuity was universal, or at least as pointing in the direction of wider marital relations 'than exist at present' (op. cit. 111). In the same way the Romans thought that the Saturnalia pointed back to a golden age when there was no law.
[19] G. B. iii. 156.
[20] Strabo, 511.
[21] G. B. iii. 84.
[22] G. B. ii. p. 327.
[23] G. B. iii. 139.
[24] G. B. ii. p. 326.
[25] Fison, J. A. I. xiv. p. 28.
[26] G. B. ii. 60-66.