Plato has another reference to a clan court, to which Glotz has not referred and which seems to us to furnish a splendid illustration of the manner in which minor issues, which affected merely the members of a local kindred, remained within the scope of clan jurisdiction even in historical Athens. We shall see later[26] that, owing to religious influences, kin-slaying became too serious a matter for the adjudication of clan tribunals from the seventh century B.C. onwards. Even minor cases of bloodshed such as ‘wounding with intent’ had probably, in historical times, been transferred to the jurisdiction of an Attic state court, called the Areopagus.[27] The clan court to which Plato refers, in the present instance, seems to have had power to try and to punish the wounding of a kinsman by a kinsman, in a passion; it is presumed, however, that the wound was not sufficiently grave to interfere with military service. Plato says[28]: ‘If one kinsman[29] wounds another ... let the heads of families[30] (_i.e._ the elders) and the male and female kindred, as far as the cousins[31] on the male and female side, come together and having tried the case deliver the offender to his natural parents to fix the fine[32]: and if the fixing of the fine be a matter of doubt, let the kindred on the male side fix the fine definitely; and if they are unable to decide, let them eventually refer the matter to the “guardians of the laws.”’ Plato goes on to say that where children wound their parents (presumably in a passion) the judges must be over sixty years of age, none of them must be a relative of the offender, and they may fix the punishment, which may include death.