[10] R. G. E. p. 151.
[11] No society is less affluent than that of the Australian tribes. But this does not provoke preferential female infanticide. See Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 51, 52, 264; Northern Tribes, p. 608; Howitt, Native Tribes of South East Australia, pp. 749, 750.
[12] See Appendix, "The supposed Expurgation of Homer."
[13] Odyssey, xxiii. 183-204.
[14] Odyssey, xvii. 266.
[15] R. G. E. p. 153.
[16] Iliad, v. 69-71.
[17] viii. 281-284.
[18] xxiv. 247.
[19] Mr. Murray refers me, for female infanticide among Greeks, to a letter in Pap. Oxyz., 744: "Keep a male. Cast out a female child." These may have been the manners of late Egyptianised Greeks, but I am not dealing with them. See p. 40 supra under note 2.