His mother’s blood upon the earth he spilled. Shall he in Argos dwell, his father’s home? What phratry-altar can him e’er receive? What common lustral water can he share? But Orestes, fearing the Erinnyes of his father who naturally and legally, in the Apolline system, pursue the relative who fails to avenge, and who is ‘polluted’ almost equally with the murderer, cries out, in the _Choephoroe_[156]: The darkling arrow of the dead that flies From kindred souls abominably slain Should harass and unman me till the state Should drive me forth, with brand upon my body. So vexed, so banished, I should have no share Of wine or dear libations, but unseen My father’s wrath should drive me from all altars. Thus, the Erinnyes seem to reflect the conflict of opinions and of sentiments which would frequently have arisen amongst the relatives of the slain concerning the guilt of a kinsman who had slain a kinsman. They also, unfortunately, suggest the co-existence of conceptions of blood-vengeance which are really to be attributed to different periods of time and to widely different types of civilisation. FOOTNOTES [1] _Supra_, p. 80 ff. [2] _Supra_, p. 78 ff. [3] _H. and H._ p. 253. [4] _Op. cit._ p. 251. [5] P. 252. [6] _Op. cit._ p. 135. [7] P. 126. [8] _Prolegomena_, p. 53, pp. 161-2. [9] _Prolegomena_, p. 64. [10] _Eumenides_, p. 106. [11] _Ib._ pp. 118-120. [12] _H. and H._ chap. vii. [13] _De R. N._ i. 151 ff. [14] _Eumenides_, 803-6. [15] _Ib._ 833-4. [16] _Ib._ 860-3. [17] _Ib._ 905-10. [18] _Eumenides_, 923-7. [19] _Ib._ 939-49. [20] _Ib._ 957-62. [21] _Ib._ 977-87. [22] _Four Stages of Greek Religion_, p. 43. [23] _Infra_, p. 149 ff.; Glotz, _op. cit._ pp. 156, 182. [24] See, _e.g._, Haddon, _Magic and Fetishism_; Burne, _Handbook of Folk-lore_; and Frazer, _Golden Bough_, vol. i. et passim. [25] ii. 40. [26] ii. 42. [27] Euripides, _Bacchae_, 111, 137. [28] Aristotle, _Poetics_, ch. iv. (1449a); see, however, Ridgeway, _Origin of Tragedy_, passim. [29] See _infra_, pp. 120 ff., 298 ff. [30] Farnell, _Cults of the Greek States_, vol. ii. p. 650. [31] viii. 41. [32] F. de Coulanges, _op. cit._ pp. 35-40. [33] _Op. cit._ p. 28. [34] _Themis_, pp. 335, 447, 461. [35] _Op. cit._ pp. 36, 160. [36] Herodotus, i. 131. [37] See, _e.g._, Cic. _Tusc. Disp._ i. 26, 65; Plato, _Rep._ ii. 378 A-D, 380 D, 381 D. [38] _H. and H._ p. 262. [39] Chadwick, _Heroic Age_, p. 418; Leaf, _H. and H._ p. 263 ff.; Harrison, _Themis_, p. 491, _Proleg._ p. 299; Ridgeway, _J.H.S._ 1898, p. 34. [40] _Il._ xv. 190 ff. [41] Leaf, _H. and H._ p. 261 note. [42] ii. 52; see Leaf, _H. and H._ p. 273. [43] Harrison, _Proleg_. p. 35 and note. [44] _Op. cit._ pp. 199-200. [45] Leaf, _H. and H._ p. 273. [46] _Ib._ p. 263. [47] _Themis_, p. 134 note. [48] _H. and H._ p. 261. [49] _Ib._ p. 267. [50] _Ib._ p. 267. [51] _Supra_, p. 21.