[2708]. Arg. ii. in Dem. Mid. Growing bold by degrees, sacrilege at length broke into the temples, and shore the golden tresses from the very statues of Zeus himself. Luc. Jup. Trag. § 25. Cf. § 10.
[2709]. Vigne, Ghuzni, Cabul, &c., p. 141.
[2710]. Varro, Ling, Lat. l. vi. ap. Kirckman. de Funer. Rom. p. 500.
[2711]. Philost. Heroic. xix. 14. p. 741. Eurip. Electr. 324. Vict. Var. Lect. xvi. 2. Mag. Miscell. ii. 17.
[2712]. Schol. Aristoph. Pac. 168.
[2713]. Dioscor. iv. 90, if we read τάφοις for τάφροις.
[2714]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. vi. 8. 3.
[2715]. Among the Mohammedans of Persia like notions are found to exist. “I often saw groups of people uttering the most doleful lamentations and bedewing with their tears the dry sod which they surrounded. They imagine the dead to be capable of hearing but not of answering their plaints.” Fowler, Three Years in Persia, i. p. 31.
[2716]. Kirchman. de Funer. Rom. l. iv. 4.
[2717]. Cf. Hesiod. Opp. et Dies, 122, sqq.