[229] History of Mexico, iii, 66.
[230] Ib., iii, 67.
[231] Clavigero, ii, 406
[232] Ib., ii, 404.
[233] Herrera, iii, 393.
[234] The phratries were not common to the Dorian tribes.—Müller’s Dorians, Tufnel and Law’s Trans., Oxford ed., ii, 82.
[235] Hermann mentions the confederacies of Ægina, Athens, Prasia, Nauplia, etc.—Political Antiquities of Greece, Oxford Trans., ch. i, s. 11.
[236] “In the ancient Rhetra of Lycurgus, the tribes and obês are directed to be maintained unaltered: but the statement of O. Müller and Boeckh—that there were thirty obês in all, ten to each tribe,—rests upon no higher evidence than a peculiar punctuation in this Rhetra, which various other critics reject; and seemingly with good reason. We are thus left without any information respecting the obê, though we know that it was an old peculiar and lasting division among the Spartan people.”—Grote’s History of Greece, Murray’s ed., ii, 362. But see Müller’s Dorians, l. c., ii, 80.
καίτοι τίς ἔστιν ὅστις ἂν εἰς τὰ πατρῷα