[61.4] Tacitus, Annals, xii. 4 and 8.
[62.1] See The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, i. 12, 14 sqq.
[62.2] G. Keating, History of Ireland, translated by J. O’Mahony (New York, 1857), pp. 337 sq.; P. W. Joyce, Social History of Ancient Ireland (London, 1903), ii. 512 sq.
[62.3] “Corc means croppy or cropped: in this instance the name refers to the bearer’s ears, and the verb used as to the action of his brother maiming him is ro-chorc.”
[63.1] (Sir) John Rhŷs, Celtic Heathendom (London and Edinburgh, 1888), pp. 308 sq., referring to the Book of the Dun, 54a.
[64.1] Laws of Manu, viii. 371 sq., translated by G. Bühler, pp. 318 sq. (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxv.). Compare Gautama, xxiii. 14 sq., translated by G. Bühler, p. 285 (Sacred Books of the East, vol. ii.).
[64.2] Code of Hammurabi, §§ 129, 157, C. H. W. Johns, Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters (Edinburgh, 1904), pp. 54, 56; Robert W. Rogers, Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament (Oxford, preface dated 1911), pp. 427, 434.
[64.3] Deuteronomy xxii. 22.
[64.4] Deuteronomy xxii. 20 sq.
[64.5] Leviticus xxi. 9.