[19] See R. G. E. pp. 123, 124, for the religious vow of celibacy.
[20] Odyssey, vol. ii. p. 362.
[21] Iliad, i. 311-316.
[22] Miss Harrison, Proleg. Greek Rel. p. 29.
[23] Laws, ix. 865.
[24] Hdt. i. 35.
[25] Eumenides, 273.
[26] Proleg. Greek Religion, 59, 60, quoting Athenaeus, ix. 78, 409 E, who cites two writers on Athenian rites, Kleidemus and Doritheus. Miss Harrison supposes that the ghost drinks the blood of the slain animal, washed off the body of the slayer, in place of the slayer's blood.
[27] Frazer, Pausanius, vol. iii pp. 278, 593.