[43]. The lectisternium is generally conceded to be of Greek origin. The ceremony consisted in formally dressing a banquet table and placing thereat the images of some gods, who reclined on cushions and were assumed to be sharing in the repast.
[44]. Cic. De Nat. Deor. i. 119.
Chapter III
GREEK AND ROMAN CONCEPTS OF RACE
[45]. The extreme of racial fanaticism will be found in H. S. Chamberlain, Grundzüge des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.
[46]. Aristophanes, Acharn. 104, Ιαοναῦ and the Schol. ad loc.: ὂτὶ πάντας τοὺς Ἕλληνας Ἰάονας ἐκάλουν οι βάρβαροι.
[47]. After the defeat of the Persians, the victors set up a tripod at Delphi, about the stem of which a bronze serpent was coiled. About this serpent ran an inscription, τοίδε τὸν πόλεμον ἐπολέμεον, “The following took part in the war.” Then follows the list of the Greeks beginning with the Lacedemonians. Here, if anywhere, a collective term denoting the common origin of all these nations might have been expected.
[48]. Euripides, Iph. Aul. 1400; Aristotle, Pol. I. ii. 4; ὡς ταὐτὸ φύσει βάρβαρον καὶ δοῦλον ὄν.
[49]. Isocrates, Pan. 181.
[50]. Demosthenes, In Mid. 48 (xx. 530).
[51]. Daniel xi. 3.