[61] Cited in Macrobius, 6, 2.
[62] See Clementine, Homilies, IV. 6; XIII. 8; XIV. 1, 8; XIX. 25, cited in art. "Elkesai" in Smith and Wace's Dict. of Christian Biog.
[63] Professor Collitz says, on this point: "The Early European word for salt, sal (nominative sē-d, genitive sal-n-és according to Joh. Schmidt) which probably goes back to the Indo-European period, may be derived from the same root to which the Sanskrit ás-r-g (genitive as-n-ás) 'blood,' and Latin s-an-gu-i-s (genitive s-an-gu-in-is) belong. The latter, as F. de Saussure (Système primitif des voyelles Indo-Européennes, Leipzig, 1897, p. 225) has shown, comes from a root es, which lost its initial vowel if the suffix was accented. If we connect the two groups of words, we should say that sal is derived from this root es by a suffix al, similar to the suffix el in the word for 'sun' (Indo-European sē'v-el, from root sēv), or to the suffix a-lo in Greek meg-a-lo-s as compared with meg-a-s. The root es is probably the same from which the word for 'to be' (Sanskrit as-mi, Latin sum) is derived, and the meaning of which seems to have been originally 'to live.'"
[64] See Blood Covenant, passim.
[65] Plutarch's Symposiacs (Goodwin's ed.), Book IV., Quest. IV., § 3.
[66] Homer's Iliad, IX., 214.
[67] Plutarch's Symposiacs (Goodwin's ed.), Book V., Quest. X., §§ 1, 2.
[68] Lev. 17 : 11; Deut. 12 : 23. Blood Covenant, p. 38 f.
[69] Morier's Journey through Persia, p. 200.
[70] See, for example, Arvieux on Customs of Bedouin Arabs, p. 43, quoted in Rosenmüller's Das alte und des neue Morgenland, II., 15.