[10] "They (the Cyclops) have neither assemblies for consultation nor _themistes_, but everyone exercises jurisdiction over his wives and his children, and they pay no regard to one another."--_Odyssey_, Book IX, 106 ff., as rendered by MAINE, _Ancient Law_, 120. _Cf. Odyssey_, Book VI, 5 ff.; BRYANT'S Trans., I, 144, 215, 216. On the _themistes_, as inspired commands of the hero-king, handed down to him from Zeus by Themis, see MAINE, chap. i; and on the import of the passage in Homer compare _ibid._, 120, with FREEMAN, _Comparative Politics_, 379 n. 20, and BOTSFORD, _Athenian Constitution_, 3, 4. [11] _Ancient Law_, 118. [12] Clients, servants, and even those admitted to the hearth as guests, by observance of the proper rites, were regarded as members of the family group and sharers in the _sacra_. HEARN, _Aryan Household_, 73, 107 f.; FUSTEL DE COULANGES, _Ancient City_, 150; MAINE, _op. cit._, 156 ff., 185 ff. (_sacra_). [13] For the Roman _patria potestas_ see POSTE, _Gaius_, 61 ff.; LEIST, _Graeco-italische Rechtsgeschichte_, 57-102; SOHM, _Institutes_, 120 ff., 356 ff., 385-95; BERNHÖFT, _Römische Königszeit_, 175 ff.; PUCHTA, _Institutionen_, II, 384 ff.; MOREY, _Outlines of Roman Law_, 23, 24; SCHEURL, _Institutionen_, 271, 272; KUNTZE, _Excurse_, 570 ff.; MAINE, _Ancient Law_, 123 ff., 130 ff., 227, 228; HADLEY, _Roman Law_, 119 ff.; CLARK, _Early Roman Law_, 25; MUIRHEAD, _Hist. Int. to the Private Law of Rome_, 27 ff., 118, 222; LANGE, _Römische Alterthümer_, I, 112 ff.; GRUPEN, _Uxore romana_, 19 ff., 37 ff.; BADER, _La femme romaine_, 75 ff.; TARDIEU, _Puissance paternelle_, 5 ff.; BOURDIN, _Condition de la mère_, 9 ff. On the power of the father to expose female infants during the early empire see CAPES, _Age of the Antonines_, 19 f. [14] MAINE, _Ancient Law_, 122, and chap. vi. [15] On the Roman agnation see POSTE, _Gaius_, 113 ff.; LEIST, _Graeco-italische Rechtsgeschichte_, 64 ff.; SOHM, _Institutes_, 124, 355 ff.; PUCHTA, _Institutionen_, II, 17 ff.; MOYLE, _Institutiones_, I, 155, 156; MOREY, _op. cit._, 6, 34; KUNTZE, _Excurse_, 435-37 (_Agnationsverband_); LANGE, _Römische Alterthümer_, I, 211 ff.; MUIRHEAD, _Hist. Int. to the Private Law of Rome_, 43 ff., 122 ff.; HADLEY, _Roman Law_, 130 ff.; MAINE, _op. cit._, 56, 141 ff. [16] MAINE, _op. cit._, 142. [17] _Ibid._, 144. [18] _Ibid._, 141. [19] _Ibid._, 141 ff., 145 ff. [20] _Ibid._, 118 ff., _passim_.