FOOTNOTES:
[46] "Balmy and clement," says Euripides, "is our atmosphere. The cold of winter has no extremes for us, and the shafts of the sun do not wound."
[47] Autochthones.
[48] The story of the collection of the Homeric poems by Pisistratus is without foundation—"eine blosse Fabel." Busolt, "Griechische Geschichte." Gotha, 1893, i., 127.—ED.
[49] Probably this custom has another origin the recollection of which was lost.—ED.
[50] Herodotus, iv., 150-158.