[36.2] (Sir) Charles Thomas Newton, _Essays on Art and Archaeology_
(London, 1880), pp. 193 _sq._
[36.3] G. Dittenberger, _Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum_2 (Leipsic,
1898-1901), vol. ii. pp. 284 _sq._, No. 584; Ch. Michel, _Recueil
d’Inscriptions Grecques_ (Brussels, 1900), p. 624, No. 728. The
goddess was probably the Syrian Atargatis or Derceto, to whom fish
were sacred (Xenophon, _Anabasis_, i. 4. 9). For more examples of
these ancient Greek curses, see Ch. Michel, _op. cit._, pp. 877-880,
Nos. 1318-1329. Compare W. H. D. Rouse, _Greek Votive Offerings_
(Cambridge, 1902), pp. 337 _sqq._
[37.1] (Sir) C. T. Newton, _Essays on Art and Archaeology_, p. 195.
[37.2] Demosthenes, _De Halonneso_, 40.
[37.3] Plato, _Laws_, viii. 9, pp. 842 _sq._
[37.4] Festus, _s.v._ “Termino,” p. 368, ed. C. O. Müller (Leipsic,
1839); Varro, _De lingua latina_, v. 74; Dionysius Halicarnasensis,
_Antiquitates Romanae_, ii. 74. As to Terminus, the Roman god of
boundaries, and his annual festival the _Terminalia_, see L. Preller,
_Römische Mythologie_3 (Berlin, 1881-1883), i. 254 _sqq._; G. Wissowa,
_Religion und Kultus der Römer_2 (Munich, 1912), pp. 136
_sq._
[37.5] Deuteronomy, xxviii. 17.
[37.6] C. H. W. Johns, _Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and
Letters_ (Edinburgh, 1904), p. 191.
[38.1] R. W. Rogers, _Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament_
(Oxford, preface dated 1911), pp. 390-392.
[38.2] David Livingstone, _Missionary Travels and Researches in South
Africa_ (London, 1857), p. 285.
[39.1] Charles New, _Life, Wanderings, and Labours in Eastern Africa_
(London, 1873), p. 106.
[39.2] John H. Weeks, _Among Congo Cannibals_ (London, 1913), pp. 310
_sq._
[39.3] P. Amaury Talbot, _In the Shadow of the Bush_ (London, 1912),
p. 296.
[40.1] _Travels of an Arab Merchant_ [_Mohammed Ibn-Omar El Tounsy_]
_in Soudan_, abridged from the French by Bayle St. John (London,
1854), pp. 69-73.
[41.1] A. C. Hollis, _The Nandi, their Language and Folk-lore_
(Oxford, 1909), pp. 36, 37.
[41.2] Proyart’s “History of Loango, Kakongo, and other Kingdoms in
Africa,” in J. Pinkerton’s _Voyages and Travels_ (London, 1808-1814),
xvi. 595.
[41.3] Rev. J. Leighton Wilson, _Western Africa_ (London, 1856), pp.
275 _sq._
[42.1] A. B. Ellis, _The Ewe-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of
West Africa_ (London, 1890), pp. 91 _sq._ Compare _id._, _The
Yoruba-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa_ (London,
1894), p. 118.
[42.2] Thomas Winterbottom, _An Account of the Native Africans in the
Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone_ (London, 1803), pp. 261 _sq._
[43.1] Bryan Edwards, _History, Civil and Commercial, of the British
West Indies_, Fifth Edition (London, 1819), ii. 107-111.
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