Primogeniture, not the rule in Greece, 90; nor in India, 97 _et seq._; eldest son had certain rights or dignity, 90 _et seq._, 97 _et seq._; called ἠθεῖος, 91, _note_ _Prytaneum_, 3, 4, 15, 138 Register, of phratria, 36; of deme, 38 Ruth, as widow and ἐπίκληρος, 31-4 Sacrifices, object of, 6, 139, _note_; to the dead, 8, 9-12; of funeral cake in India, 51 _et seq._; funeral rites at Athens, 20; of householder in India, 99; bond of common religion, 13, 53, 138 Stranger, abhorrence of, 5, 71, 74; as guest, 99 (_see_ Guest); admission to tribe, 67 _et seq._, 96 τέμενος, in Homer, 103, 113; allotted to princes and gods, 102, 106, 118, 122; called πατρώιος, 106; helped to support prince, 118-9 Tonsure, in Greece, 39; in India, 40 Tribe, its basis one of blood, 4-5, 138; possible development of, 14-15; admission to, 68 _et seq._, 96 (_and see_ Citizenship) Widow, could not inherit from husband, 27-8; returned to her kin or guardian, 28; when allowed to remain, 28, _note_; the case of Tamar, 30; of Ruth, 31 _et seq._ THE END. FOOTNOTES M1 Vitality of the tribal system. M2 Its survivals form the subject of this inquiry. M3 The centres of political and tribal society. _ 1 Il._ ix. 63. _ 2 Il._ ii. 400. _ 3 Il._ xi. 807. _ 4 Il._ ii. 788. M4 The Prytaneum and Hestia. _ 5 Journal of Philology_, xiv. 145 (1885), Mr. Frazer on Prytaneum. 6 Cauer, _Delect. Inser. Graec._ § 121. (Crete, c. 200 B.C.) “I swear by Hestia in the Prytaneum (τὰν ἐμ πρυτανείῳ), by Zeus of the Agora, Zeus Tallaios, Apellon Delphinios, Athanaia Poliouchos, Apellon Poitios, and Lato, and Artemis, and Ares, and Aphordite, and Hermes, and Halios ... and all gods and goddesses.” _Cf._ also § 116, and _Od._ xiv. 158. Plato, in _Laws_ § 848, says Hestia, Zeus and Athena shall have temples everywhere. _ 7 Thuc._ ii. 16. M5 Their origin. _ 8 Journal of Philol._ xiv. 145. _ 9 Op. cit._ p. 153. M6 Qualification for share in religious rites one of blood. 10 Exception, however, was sometimes made in the case of the stranger as a favoured guest, _v. infra_, p. 99. M7 Ancestor-worship not obvious in Homer. 11 Plato (_Laws_ 948) remarks that at the time of Rhadamanthos the belief in the existence of the gods was a reasonable one, seeing that at that time most men were sons of gods. M8 Offerings of food to the gods, _ 12 Il._ xxiii. 206. It is clear from _Il._ i. 466 _et seq._ that the sacrifice was held to be a feast at which the choice portions were devoured by the god by means of the fire on his altar. _Cf._ p. 139, note. M9 and to the dead. 13 It was not therefore only at the mouth of Hades that the dead could benefit by such offerings. M10 The continuance of his name quite as important as offerings of food.