[354]. Perhaps the “egg laid on the Sabbath” would have excited less comment, if the fact were kept in mind that a decision in a specific case can hardly fail to be particular.

[355]. C. I. L. ix. 1. 26.

[356]. Laius outraged Chrysippus, son of Pelops, who had been left in his care. The Euripidean lost play on Oedipus seems to have adopted that version. Pisander, Schol. Eur. Phoen. 1760: πρῶτος δὲ Λάιος τὸν ἀθέμιτον ἔρωτα τοῦτον ἔσχεν.

[357]. Cf. Philo, De Spec. Leg. 7.

[358]. Tosefta Ab. Zar. ii. 6.

[359]. Ziebarth, Kulturbilder aus griechischen Städten, p. 73.

[360]. In very much earlier times Jews left dedications in the temple of Pan Euhodus. Ditt. Inscr. Or. 74: Θεύδοτος Δωρίωνος Ἰουδαῖος σωθεὶς ἐκ πελάγου. Cf. 73, Πτολεμαῖος Διονυσίου Ἰουδαῖος.

[361]. This became a standing formula and in inscriptions is regularly abbreviated N. K. C. (Valerius Probus, 4), i.e. non kalumniae causa. The use of k for c testifies to the antiquity of the formula.

[362]. Suet. Domit. 12.

[363]. Dio Cassius (Xiph.), lxvii. 14.