[158] Plato, Politicus, p. 290 E; Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 57; Lysias, Or. vi. 4; G. Gilbert, Handbuch der griechischen Staatsalterthümer,² i. 281 sqq.
[159] Aristotle, Politics, viii. (vi.) 8. 20, p. 1322 b 26 sqq.; G. Gilbert, op. cit. ii. 323 sq.; G. F. Schömann, Griechische Alterthümer,⁴ i. 145 sq., ii. 423 sq.
[160] Dittenberger, Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum,² No. 616; Ch. Michel, Recueil d’Inscriptions grecques, No. 716.
[161] P. Cauer, Delectus Inscriptionum Graecarum,² No. 431, lines 46 sqq. Another inscription in the same collection (No. 428) also refers to the kings of Mytilene. Both inscriptions are printed in Ch. Michel’s Recueil, Nos. 356, 357.
[162] Dittenberger, Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum,² No. 570; Ch. Michel, Recueil, No. 707.
[163] P. Cauer, Delectus Inscriptionum Graecarum,² No. 496; Ch. Michel, Recueil, No. 1383.
[164] G. F. Schömann, Handbuch der griech. Alterthümer,⁴ ii. 270 sqq.; E. Ziebarth, “Der Fluch im griechischen Recht,” Hermes, xxx. (1895) pp. 57–70; Miss J. E. Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion² (Cambridge, 1908), pp. 138–145; and my note on Pausanias, iii. 2. 7. For example, the people of Teos cursed poisoners and all persons who hindered the importation of corn (Cauer, op. cit. No. 480; Ch. Michel, op. cit. No. 1318). On the other hand, at Athens in the time of Solon public curses were levelled at all who exported anything but olive oil (Plutarch, Solon, 24). These particular curses may interest students of the history of free trade.
[165] Plutarch, Quaest. Graec. 12. Aug. Mommsen (Delphika, pp. 250 sq.) is probably right in comparing this ceremony with the swinging-festival (Aiora) at Athens, as to which see The Golden Bough, Second Edition, ii. 453 sqq.
[166] Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum Graeciae Septentrionalis, i. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 188, 223; G. F. Schömann, op. cit. i. 146; G. Gilbert, op. cit. ii. 323 sq.
[167] Strabo, viii. 7. 2, p. 384. In this passage the word βασιλέα is omitted in some editions, but has the authority of several MSS. (Strabo ed. C. Müller, p. 998), and is probably right.