[139\5: Inquiry, at sacrifices to the dead, of an ~exêgêtê/s~: Is. 8, 39; of the ~exêgêtai/~ (who give detailed instructions and advice: [D.] 47, 68 ff. Harp. ~exêgêtê/s; e/sti de\ kai\ ha\~ (perh. ~ho/te ta\~) ~pro\s tou\s katoichome/nous nomizo/mena exêgou=nto toi=s deome/nois~. Tim. Lex. ~exêgêtai/; trei=s gi/nontai putho/chrêstoi~ (there is no need to understand this other than literally, i.e. that the college of the ~putho/chr. exêg.~ consisted of three members: Schöll, _Hermes_, 22, 564), ~hoi=s me/lei kathai/rein tou\s a/gei tini\ enischêthe/ntas~. The purification of the ~enagei=s~ is closely connected with the cult of the souls. It is true that prescriptions for such purification were to be found also ~en toi=s tô=n Eupatridô=n~ (so Müller, _Aesch. Eum._ 163 A. 20 [152 n. E.T.]) ~patri/ois~: Ath. 9, 410 A, and it may be that the college of the ~ex Eupatridô=n exêgêtai/~ may have also given decisions in such cases. Still, that does not prevent the statement of Timaeus in regard to the ~exêg. putho/chr.~ from being true. (Expiations belong principally if not exclusively to the Apolline cult.)] [140\5: Plu., _Ser. Num._ 17, p. 650 C.D. expressly appeals for confirmation of the belief in a continued existence of the soul after the death of the body to utterances of the Delphic god: ~a/chri tou= polla\ toiau=ta prothespi/zesthai, ouch ho/sio/n esti tê=s psuchê=s katagnô=nai tha/naton~.] [141\5: That already in Homer the circle of the ~agchistei=s~ (in the Athenian legal sense) was called upon to prosecute the blood-feud is certainly probable in itself; it cannot, however, be proved from examples occurring in Homer. Leist's statements in _Graecoital. Rechtsges._, p. 42, are not quite exact. The facts are: a father is called upon to avenge his son, and a son his father, and a brother to avenge his brother (~g~ 307; ~I~ 632 f.; ~ô~ 434); once the avengers are the ~kasi/gnêtoi/ te e/tai te~ of the murdered man, ~o~ 273. ~e/tai~ has a very wide sense and is not even confined to kinship; at any rate it is not simply "cousins" (~e/tai kai\ anepsioi/~ side by side. ~I~ 464).--In Attic law, too, in certain cases the duty of prosecuting the murderer extended beyond the limits of the ~anepsiadoi=~ to more distant relatives and even to the ~phra/tores~ of the murdered man (Law ap. D. 43, 57).] [142\5: Flight, indeed ~aeiphugi/a~, on account of ~pho/nos akou/sios~: ~Ps~ 85 ff. (The fugitive becomes the ~thera/pôn~ of the person who receives him into his house in the foreign land: l. 90; cf. ~O~ 431 f.; this must have been the rule.)--Flight on account of ~pho/nos hekou/sious (lochêsa/menos~ 268) ~n~ 259 ff. And so frequently.]