| Father and mother. | |
|---|---|
| Grandfather. | |
| Greatgrandfather. | |
| Brother and sister. | |
| First cousins. | |
| Second cousins. | |
| Third cousins. | |
| Fourth cousins. | |
| Fifth cousins. |
According to the Gwentian Code, fifth cousins share. “There is no proper share, no proper name in kin further than that.”[182]
The Venedotian Code states that galanas is paid by the kindred: two parts by the relations of the father, one part by the relations of the mother, to sixth cousins. All kindred after sixth cousins pay spearpenny.[183]
The sixth cousin is also called “kinsman son of a fifth cousin, and then the father (i.e. the fifth cousin) pays it, because his relationship can be fixed, but the relationship of his son to the murderer cannot.”
Defilement rested upon the group of kinsmen.
The defilement of carrying out a corpse and assisting at a funeral also covered the same area of relationship at Athens—i.e. the ἀγχιστεία. The house of the dead man was only to be entered by those naturally polluted.
“After the funeral no woman to enter the house save only those defiled; to wit—mother, wife, sisters, and daughters; beside these not more than five women and two girls, daughters of first cousins: beyond these, none.”[184]
Demosthenes quotes the law of Solon to the effect that—
“No woman under sixty years old to enter the house or follow the corpse except those within ἀνεψιαδοῖ (πλὴν ὅσαι ἐντὸς ἀνεψιαδῶν εἰσιν): no woman at all may enter the house after the carrying out of the corpse except those within ἀνεψιαδοῖ.”[185]
All those near of kin assist in the funeral.