[172\5: The Delphinion, the court for trying ~pho/nos di/kaios~, and the ancient dwelling of Aegeus (Plu., _Thes._ 12), was at the same time {215} (and perhaps originally) an expiation site. Expiatory sacrifice was there made for Theseus after his fights with the Pallantidai and the highway robbers (~aphosiou/menos to\ a/gos~, Poll. viii, 119).] [173\5: Plu., _Ser. Num._ 17, p. 560 EF. Note the expressions: ~_hila/sasthai_ tê\n tou= Archilo/chou psuchê/n, _hilasasthai_ tê\n Pausani/ou psuchê/n~. Suid. ~Archi/lochos~, from Aelian: ~_meili/xasthai_ tê\n tou= Telesiklei/ou paido\s psuchê/n, kai\ _praü=nai_ choai=s~.] [174\5: The three ~exêgêtai\ putho/chrêstoi, hoi=s me/lei kathai=rein tou\s a/gei tini\ enischêthe/ntas~, Tim. **_Lex._ p. 109 R.] [175\5: Pl., _Lg._ 865 B: the agent in a ~pho/nos akou/sios~ (of a special kind) ~katharthei\s kata\ to\n ek Delphô=n komisthe/nta peri\ tou/tôn no/mon e/stô katharo/s~.] [176\5: I set down here the expressions occurring in the speeches and the (at any rate contemporary [see Appendix iv]) Tetralogies of Antiphon, which throw light on the religious ideas lying behind the procedure in trials for murder. In the prosecution of the murderer the following are concerned: ~ho tethneô/s, hoi no/moi~, and ~theoi\ hoi ka/tô~, _Or._ 1, 31. The vigorous prosecution of the case on the part of the relations of the dead is ~_boêthei=n_ tô=| tethneô=ti~: 1, 31. _Tetr._ 1 ~b~, 13. The condemnation of the murderer is ~timôri/a tô=| adikêthe/nti~, his personal revenge: 5, 88 = 6, 6. The accusing relatives come before the court as representatives of the dead man, ~_anti\_ tou= patho/ntos episkê/ptomen humi=n~, as they say to the judges, _Tetr._ 3 ~g~, 7. The duty of accusing as well as the ~ase/bêma~ of the deed of bloodshed rests upon them until satisfaction is made for it: _Tetr._ 1 ~a~, 3. But the ~mi/asma~ of the deed attaches to the whole city in which the murderer lives. All who sit at table with him, or live under the same roof, even the temples he walks in, are polluted by his mere presence: hence come ~aphori/ai~ and ~dustuchei=s pra/xeis~ on the city. It is to the greatest interest of the judges to avert this pollution by giving a propitiatory judgment: _Tetr._ 1 ~a~, 10; _Or._ 5, 11, 82; _Tetr._ 1 ~a~, 3; 1 ~g~, 9, 11; 3 ~g~, 6, 7. Above all it is necessary to find the real criminal and to punish him. If the relatives of the dead prosecute some one other than the real doer of the deed, it is they, and not the judges (on account of their wrong decision), who will have to bear the wrath of the dead man and of the avenging spirits: _Tetr._ 1 ~a~, 3; 3 ~a~, 4; 3 ~d~, 10; for in this case the murdered man is deprived of his ~timôri/a~: 3 ~a~, 4. But perjured witnesses and unjust judges are liable to a ~mi/asma~, too, which they then introduce into their own houses: _Tetr._ 3 ~a~, 3; or at least, if they give a false condemnation (but not a false acquittal) of the accused, they incur the ~mê/nima