“His sons were kept in prison, till they grew
Of years to fill a bowstring or a throne.”
[119]. To quote only well known cases, we have ‘the massacre of the princes,’ involving the two uncles and seven cousins of the Emperor Constantius, and those of our own King John and Richard III.
[120]. The legislation of Solon is said by Diogenes Laertius (who is however contradicted by notorious[notorious] evidence) to have excluded from the position of guardian anyone who had the right of succession to the ward’s estate. And this was also the law of England with reference to guardians in socage. In France the next in succession had the charge of the estate, but was excluded from the custody of the person of the ward.
[121]. The true sense of the name has been missed by Birch, who reads it Teti, and by Brugsch, who reads it “Chonti, der Anfängliche.” At Beb-el-moluk it is written
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[122]. D. Aegyptische Elle, Taf. 1 and 2.