[63\5: As though the dead had not entirely departed ~kai\ ho/pla kai\ skeu/ê kai\ hima/tia sunê/thê toi=s tethnêko/sin suntha/ptontes hê/dion e/chousin~ Plu., _Ne Suav. Ep._ 26, p. 1104 D. Restrictions in Law of the Labyad. (l. 19 ff.) ~ho/d' ho tethmo/s per tô=n entothêkô=n; mê\ ple/on pe/nte kai\ tria/konta drachma=n enthe/men, mê/te pria/menon mê/te woi/kô~.] [64\5: Helbig, _Hom. Epos._ 41.] [65\5: ~belti/ones kai\ krei/ttones~. Arist., _Eudem._ 37 [44] ap. Plu., _Cons. Apoll._ 27, p. 115 BC.] [66\6: [Pl.] _Min._ 315 D. To raise doubts on this point is mere perversity. It is of no avail to advance the argument (which is commonly used also against the similar statements about Rome in Serv., _A._ v, 64; vi, 152) that this story only intends to explain the origin of the worship of the household _Lares_. The Greeks did not have this particular worship, or else it was so completely forgotten that no explanatory account of its origin was ever offered.--Beside the hearth and the altar of Hestia the most ancient resting place of the head of the house must have been placed too. When the wife of Phokion had had the body of her husband burnt abroad ~entheme/nê tô=| ko/lpô| ta\ osta= kai\ komi/sasa nu/ktôr eis tê\n oiki/an katô/ruxe para\ tê\n hesti/an~, Plu., _Phoc._ 37.--It was wrongly believed that in the remarkable rock-graves in the neighbourhood of the Pnyx at Athens examples of such graves situated inside the house had been discovered. See Milchhöfer in Baumeister's _Denkm._ 153b.] [67\5: This occurs among the New Zealanders, Eskimos, etc.; cf. Lubbock, _Prehistoric Times_, pp. **465, 511, etc.] [68\5: In Sparta and Tarentum: see Becker, _Char._^2 iii, 105 (E.T.^3 p. 393). Acc. to Klearch. ap. Ath. 522 F certain men of Tarentum were struck by lightning and killed; they were then buried ~pro\ tô=n thurô=n~ of their houses and ~stê=lai~ were put up in their honour. If they had really been the criminals that legend made them it would have been impossible, even in Tarentum, for them to have been buried within the walls of the city, still less before the doors of their houses--an honour given only to Heroes; cf. above, chap. iv, n. 136. The violent alteration of ~pro\ tô=n thurô=n~ into ~pro\ tô=n pulô=n~ in order to avoid this difficulty, is obviously rendered untenable by the previous ~heka/stê tô=n oikiô=n ho/sous ktl.~ The legend is evidently a fiction and these ~dio/blêtoi~ (to whom it appears, as Heroes, neither the funeral dirge nor the usual ~choai/~ were offered) must have belonged to the class of those whom death by the flash of lightning raised to a higher and honoured rank (see _Append._ 1). Thus, too, the graves in the market at Megara mentioned by Becker must have been Hero-graves: see above, chap. iv, n. 83. These cases where the graves of Heroes are found in the middle of the city, in the market place, etc., show very plainly the essential difference that was held to exist between the Heroes and the ordinary dead.]