[146] Some Australian natives cut off the thumb of the right hand of a dead foe in order to make his spirit unable to throw the spear efficiently (Oldfield, in Trans. Ethn. Soc. N.S. iii. 287).
[147] Plato, Leges, ix. 873.
[148] Schmidt, op. cit. ii. 104.
[149] Dio Chrysostom, Orationes, lxiv. 3.
[150] Cicero, Cato Major, 20 (73).
[151] Plato, Phædo, p. 62.
[152] Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea, v. 11. 3.
[153] See Schmidt, op. cit. ii. 83, 441; Rohde, Psyche, p. 202, n. 1.
[154] Valerius Maximus, Factorum dictorumque memorabilia, ii. 6. 7.
[155] See Geiger, Der Selbstmord im klassischen Altertum, p. 5 sqq.