[109] Fragment 189 ἀλλ’ ἱππάκης βρωτῆρες εὔνομιοι Σκύται. Fragment 184:
ἔπειτα δ’ ἥξει δῆμον ἐνδικώτατον ... ἁπάντων καὶ φιλοξενώτατον Γαβίους, ἵν οὔτ’ ἄροτρον οὔτε γατόμος τέμνει δίκελλ’ ἄρουραν, ἀλλ’ αὐτόσποροι γύαι φέρουσι βίοτον ἄφθονον βρότοις.
[110] Plato, Rep. 370-2.
[111] Plato, Rep. 373.
[112] Far more explicit and detailed is the comparative study of foreign customs which underlies Socratic doctrine in the Laws. The stock examples of the fifth century, Sarmatians (804 E), Amazons (806 A), Thracians (805 D), and the like, are all there, side by side with the Spartans and the Cretans, the Persians, the Egyptians, and the Phoenicians (750 C). But the anthropological basis of fourth-century thought is a distinct subject, and would require a whole chapter to itself.
[113] Hdt. i. 59.
[114] P. Ure, Journ. Hell. Studies, xxvi. pp. 134 ff.
[115] Aen. i. 607 foll. Cp. Aen. iii. 429—
Praestat Trinacrii metas lustrare Pachyni Cessantem, longos et circumflectere cursus:
where the slow movement and circuitous course of a lustratio are in the poet’s mind.