[24] Numbers, xxxi. 19 sqq.
[25] Deuteronomy, xxi. 1 sq.
[26] Laws of Manu, xi. 73.
[27] Ibid. xi. 74.
[28] Ibid. xi. 78.
[29] Ibid. xi. 79.
[30] Plato, Leges, ix. 865.
[31] Müller, Dissertations on the Eumenides of Æschylus, p. 103. Aeschylus says (Eumenides, 448 sqq.) it is the custom that a murderer should not speak anything until he has been sprinkled with the spurted blood of a slain sucking-pig. Cf. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, iv. 700 sqq.; Aristotle, De republica Atheniensium, 57.
[32] Plato, Leges, ix. 865.
[33] Demosthenes, Contra Aristocratem, 71 sqq., p. 643 sq. Müller, Dissertations, p. 106 sq. Frazer, Golden Bough, i. 341. On the uncleanness of manslayers see also Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii. 433 sq.; Frazer, op. cit. i. 331 sqq.