[1289] A. Bastian, Völkerstämme am Brahmaputra (Berlin, 1883), p. xi.
[1290] Herodotus, iv. 5–7. Compare K. Neumann, Die Hellenen im Skythenlande, i. (Berlin, 1855) pp. 269 sq.
[1291] Pausanias, ix. 40. 11 sq.
[1292] Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, ed. R. Wagner, p. 185. On public talismans in antiquity see Ch. A. Lobeck, Aglaophamus, pp. 278 sqq.; and my note on Pausanias, viii. 40. 11.
[1293] The Laws of Manu, ix. 246 sq., translated by G. Bühler, p. 385 (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxv.).
[1294] Homer, Odyssey, ii. 409, iv. 43, 691, vii. 167, viii. 2, xviii. 405; Iliad, ii. 335, xvii. 464, etc.
[1295] Homer, Odyssey, xix. 109–114. The passage was pointed out to me by my friend Prof. W. Ridgeway. Naturally this view was not shared by the enlightened Greeks of a later age. See Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 31 sqq.; Polybius, Hist. vi. 6 sq.
[1296] Nicolaus Damascenus, bk. vi. frag. 49, in Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum, ed. C. Müller, iii. 381, Ἡν γὰρ δὴ κακίστος, καί ἄλλως βασιλεύοντος αὐτοῦ ηὔχμησεν ἡ γῆ.
[1297] Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, iii. 5. 1.
[1298] Ammianus Marcellinus, xxviii. 5. 14.