Εἵατ᾽ ἐπὶ ξεστοῖσι λίθοις, ἱερῷ ἐνὶ κύκλῳ.
Several of the old northern Sagas represent the old men, assembled for the purpose of judging, as sitting on great stones in a circle, called the Urtheilsring, or Gerichtsring (Leitfaden der Nördischen Alterthümer, p. 31, Copenhag. 1837).
[115] Homer, Iliad, xviii. 497-510.
[116] Hesiod, Opp. Di. 37.
[117] Hesiod, Opp. Di. 27-33.
[118] Hesiod, Opp. Di. 250-263; Homer, Iliad, xvi. 387.
[119] Tittmann (Darstellung der Griechischen Staatsverfassungen, book ii. p. 63) gives too lofty an idea, in my judgment, of the condition and functions of the Homeric agora.
[120] Iliad, i. 520-527; iv. 14-56; especially the agora of the gods (xx. 16).
[121] Odyss. ix. 114.—
Τοῖσιν δ᾽ (the Cyclôpes) οὔτ᾽ ἀγοραὶ βουληφόροι, οὔτε θέμιστες.