[8] Marquardt, Das Privatleben der Römer, I, 1. The theory is also held by Bluntschli, Theory of the State, 182-89; Schrader, Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte, 391-95; Leist, Alt-arisches Jus Gentium, 113; Müller, Handbuch der klass. Alterthumswissenschaft, IV, 18-20; Gilbert, Handbuch der griech. Staatsalterthümer, II, 302; Maine, Village Communities, 15 ff.; Ancient Law, 118 ff.; Early Law and Custom, chap. iii; Fustel de Coulanges, Ancient City, 111 ff.; Grote, History of Greece, I, 561; Thümser, Die griech. Staatsalterthümer, 28 ff.
[9] Plato, Laws, Book III, 680, 681: Jowett, Dialogues, IV, 209; Aristotle, Politics, Book I, 2 ff.: Jowett, I, 2 ff. These are followed by Cicero, De Officiis, I, 17.
[10] "They (the Cyclops) have neither assemblies for consultation nor themistes, but everyone exercises jurisdiction over his wives and his children, and they pay no regard to one another."—Odyssey, Book IX, 106 ff., as rendered by Maine, Ancient Law, 120. Cf. Odyssey, Book VI, 5 ff.; Bryant's Trans., I, 144, 215, 216. On the themistes, as inspired commands of the hero-king, handed down to him from Zeus by Themis, see Maine, chap. i; and on the import of the passage in Homer compare ibid., 120, with Freeman, Comparative Politics, 379 n. 20, and Botsford, Athenian Constitution, 3, 4.
[11] Ancient Law, 118.
[12] Clients, servants, and even those admitted to the hearth as guests, by observance of the proper rites, were regarded as members of the family group and sharers in the sacra. Hearn, Aryan Household, 73, 107 f.; Fustel de Coulanges, Ancient City, 150; Maine, op. cit., 156 ff., 185 ff. (sacra).
[13] For the Roman patria potestas see Poste, Gaius, 61 ff.; Leist, Graeco-italische Rechtsgeschichte, 57-102; Sohm, Institutes, 120 ff., 356 ff., 385-95; Bernhöft, Römische Königszeit, 175 ff.; Puchta, Institutionen, II, 384 ff.; Morey, Outlines of Roman Law, 23, 24; Scheurl, Institutionen, 271, 272; Kuntze, Excurse, 570 ff.; Maine, Ancient Law, 123 ff., 130 ff., 227, 228; Hadley, Roman Law, 119 ff.; Clark, Early Roman Law, 25; Muirhead, Hist. Int. to the Private Law of Rome, 27 ff., 118, 222; Lange, Römische Alterthümer, I, 112 ff.; Grupen, Uxore romana, 19 ff., 37 ff.; Bader, La femme romaine, 75 ff.; Tardieu, Puissance paternelle, 5 ff.; Bourdin, Condition de la mère, 9 ff. On the power of the father to expose female infants during the early empire see Capes, Age of the Antonines, 19 f.
[14] Maine, Ancient Law, 122, and chap. vi.
[15] On the Roman agnation see Poste, Gaius, 113 ff.; Leist, Graeco-italische Rechtsgeschichte, 64 ff.; Sohm, Institutes, 124, 355 ff.; Puchta, Institutionen, II, 17 ff.; Moyle, Institutiones, I, 155, 156; Morey, op. cit., 6, 34; Kuntze, Excurse, 435-37 (Agnationsverband); Lange, Römische Alterthümer, I, 211 ff.; Muirhead, Hist. Int. to the Private Law of Rome, 43 ff., 122 ff.; Hadley, Roman Law, 130 ff.; Maine, op. cit., 56, 141 ff.
[16] Maine, op. cit., 142.
[17] Ibid., 144.