[398] Bachofen, speaking of the Cretan city of Lyktos, remarks that “this city was considered a Lacedaemonian colony, and as also related to the Athenians. It was in both cases only on the mother’s side, for only the mothers were Spartans; the Athenian relationship, however, goes back to those Athenian women whom the Pelasgian Tyrrhenians are said to have enticed away from the Brauron promontory.”—Das Mutterrecht, ch. 13, p. 31.
With descent in the male line the lineage of the women would have remained unnoticed; but with descent in the female line the colonists would have given their pedigrees through females only.
[399] Das Mutterecht, ch. 38, p. 73.
[400] Polybius, xii, extract the second, Hampton’s Trans., iii, 242.
ἀδελφὴν γὰρ ὁ πάππος οὑμὸς ἔγημεν οὐχ ὁμομητρίαν.—Demosthenes contra Ebulides, 20.
[402] Demosth., Eubul., 24: In his time the registration was in the Deme; but it would show who were the phrators, blood relatives, fellow demots and gennetes of the person registered; as Euxitheus says, λέγω φράτερσι, συγγενέσι, δημόταις, γεννήταις vide also Hermann’s Polit. Antiq. of Greece, §. 100.
[403] Prometheus, 853.
ἀλλ' αὺτογενεῖ φυξανορίᾳ,