On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An EssaySeebohm, Hugh E. (Hugh Exton)
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On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay
Seebohm, Hugh E. (Hugh Exton)
Greece -- History; Greece -- Law -- Antiquities; Greece -- Social life and customs; Land tenure -- Greece; Tribes
_ 105 Anc. Grk. Inscr._ Brit. Mus. cccxv. cccxvii. and cccxviii. Oath of
mother required before legitimacy registered, in the island of
Kalymna.
_ 106 Cf._ Aristot. _Ath. Pol._ xlii.
107 Isaeus, iii. 75.
_ 108 Ib._ vi. 47. _Cf._ Deuteronomy xxiii. i.
M51 Liability for bloodshed rested on a group of kinsmen.
109 Robertson Smith, _Kinship, &c. in Arabia_, p. 262.
110 Dem. _in Euerg._ and _Mnesib._ 1160.
111 Dem. _Macart._ 1069. _Cf._ Deut. xxi. 1-9.
_ 112 Cf. Od._ iii. 195.
M52 No ransom for murders within the tribe;
_ 113 Il._ ix. 63.
ἀφρήτωρ, ἀθέμιστος, ἀνέστιός ἐστιν ἐκεῖνος,
ὅς πολέμου ἔραται ἐπιδημίου ὀκρυόεντος.
114 Il. xiii. 695. _Cf._ xv. 335.
_ 115 Il._ xvi. 572.
_ 116 Il._ ii. 662.
_ 117 Cf. Od._ xiii. 259, xiv. 380.
M53 or between citizen and citizen.
118 Quoted in Dem. _c. Aristocrat._ 629.
_ 119 Laws_ 865 d.
_ 120 Ib._ 871. Soph. O.C. 407. Oedipus could not be buried on Theban
soil, because he had shed ἔμφυλον αἷμα.
_ 121 Cf_. Aeschines in _Ctesiph._ 244.
122 ix. 17-19. _Cf._ Dem. _c. Pantaen._ 983, 59.
123 Plato, _Laws_ 871 D.
124 Plato, _Laws_ 871 B. _Cf._868.
_ 125 Ib._ 872 E. _Cf._ Tacitus, _Germania_, 21. Suscipere tam
inimicitias seu patris seu propinqui quam amicitias necesse est. Nec
implacabiles durant: luitur enim etiam homicidium certo armentorum
ac pecorum numero, _recipitque satisfactionem universa domus_,
utiliter in publicum, quia periculosiores sunt inimicitiae juxta
libertatem.
_ 126 Ib._ 873 E.
127 Herod. i. 44.
M54 All kinsmen were not equally responsible.
M55 The unity of the οἶκος.
128 v. _infra_ p. 90 _et seq._
_ 129 c. Leoch._ 1083.
130 Dem. _c. Macart._ 1055-6.
131 Isaeus, viii. 32.
M56 Grades of kinship in Western Europe.
M57 The position of the great-grandson,
M58 in Wales,
_ 132 Venedotian Code_, ii. xii.
133 Lady Charlotte Guest’s _Mabinogion_, p. 234.
M59 and in feudal Normandy.
M60 The custom of _parage_.
134 cxxviii-cxxxi.
M61 Co-heritage in Wales.
_ 135 Dimetian Code_, ii. xxiii.
M62 Degrees of relationship in India.
_ 136 Manu_, ix. 186.
_ 137 Manu_, iii. 5.
_ 138 Manu_ v. 60.
M63 Four generations share in the cake-offering.
M64 Similar grouping of the pourers of the water libation.
_ 139 Gwentian Code_, ii. viii.
M65 The οἶκος includes four generations.
140 Dem. _c. Makart._ 1076.
M66 The ἀγχιστεία at Athens.
141 Cf. _infra_, tree on p. 62.
142 Dem. _c. Makart._ 1055-6.
143 Dem. _c. Makart._ 1077.
_ 144 Id._ 1078 _et seq._
M67 The right of succession limited to the great-grandchild of the
common ancestor.
M68 The law according to Isaeus.
145 Isaeus, vii. 22, and xi. i.
146 Isaeus, xi. 30.
M69 The law according to Demosthenes.
_ 147 c. Makart._ 1067.
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