[137.1] Mullach, Frag. Philos., Adespota.
[137.2] Anth. Pal., 14, 71.
[137.3] Ib. No. 74.
[138.1] Wilamowitz, Isyllos, 6; Anth. Pal., Adespota, ccxxxiii. b: cf. inscription from Astypalaia in Collitz, Dialect-Inschriften, No. 3472.
[138.2] C.I.G. Ins. Mar. Æg. 1, 789.
[139.1] In Neæram, § 85.
[139.2] Clem. Alex., Strom., 619, Pott.
[140.1] I believe that the trial scene on the shield of Achilles, rightly interpreted, implies that the community are beginning to decide whether the avenger shall accept the were-gilt or not.
[142.1] Die Entwickelung der Strafe, vol. ii. p. 347.
[143.1] An example is given by Steinmetz, op. cit. ii. p. 336, of the punishment of incest among the Pasemaher: the guilty pair were buried alive with a hollow pipe reaching from their mouths to the top of the earth: if they survived seven days of this agony their lives were spared: no explanation is offered, but it is not improbable that the law is inspired by the idea that the earth could absorb their impurity.