280 F. Bonney, “On some Customs of the Aborigines of the River Darling,” _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xiii. (1884) pp. 134 _sq._; Spencer and Gillen, _Native Tribes of Central Australia_, pp. 507, 509 _sq._; (Sir) G. Grey, _Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia_ (London, 1841), ii. 332. _ 281 Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits_, vi. (Cambridge, 1908) pp. 135, 154. 282 Hyginus, _Fabulae_, 74; Apollodorus, iii. 6. 4; Schol. on Pindar, _Pyth._, Introduction; Pausanias, ii. 15. 2 _sq._; Clement of Alexandria, _Protrept._ ii. 34, p. 29, ed. Potter. 283 Scholiast on Pindar, _Isthm._, Introduction, p. 514, ed. Boeckh; Pausanias, i. 44. 8; Apollodorus, iii. 4. 3; Zenobius, iv. 38; Clement of Alexandria, _l.c._; J. Tzetzes, _Scholia on Lycophron_, 107, 229; Scholia on Euripides, _Medea_, 1284; Hyginus, _Fabulae_, 2. 284 Clement of Alexandria, _l.c._; Hyginus, _Fabulae_, 140. M70 The tradition is confirmed by Greek practice, for in historical times games were instituted to do honour to many famous men in Greece. 285 Homer, _Iliad_, xxiii. 255 _sqq._, 629 _sqq._, 651 _sqq._ 286 Herodotus, vi. 38. 287 Pausanias, iii. 14. 1. 288 Plutarch, _De sera numinis vindicta_, 17. 289 Thucydides, v. 10 _sq._ 290 Plutarch, _Timoleon_, 39. 291 Aulus Gellius, x. 18. 5 _sq._ 292 Arrian, vii. 14. 10. M71 The Greeks also instituted games in honour of large numbers of men who had perished in battle or a massacre. 293 Herodotus, i. 167. 294 Plutarch, _Aristides_, 21; Strabo, ix. 2. 31, p. 412; Pausanias, ix. 2. 5 _sq._ 295 Philostratus, _Vit. Sophist._ ii. 30; Heliodorus, _Aethiopica_, i. 17; compare Aristotle, _Constitution of Athens_, 58. M72 Funeral games have been celebrated in honour of the dead by other peoples both in ancient and modern times. 296 Herodotus, v. 8. 297 Livy, xxiii. 30. 15. 298 Livy, xxxi. 50. 4. 299 Livy, xxxix. 46. 2 _sq._ _ 300 Census of India, 1901_, vol. iii., _The Andaman and Nicobar Islands_, by Lieut.-Col. Sir Richard C. Temple (Calcutta, 1903), p. 209. 301 Letter of the missionary Chevron, in _Annales de la Propagation de la Foi_, xv. (1843) pp. 40 _sq._ 302 É. Aymonier, _Voyage dans le Laos_ (Paris, 1895-1897), ii. 325 _sq._; C. Bock, _Temples and Elephants_ (London, 1884), p. 262. 303 A. de Levchine, _Description des hommes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaisaks_ (Paris, 1840), pp. 367 _sq._; H. Vambery, _Das Türkenvolk_ (Leipsic, 1885), p. 255; P. von Stenin, “Die Kirgisen des Kreises Saissanak im Gebiete von Ssemipalatinsk,” _Globus_, lxix. (1906) p. 228. 304 T. de Pauly, _Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie_ (St. Petersburg, 1862), _Peuples ouralo-altaïques_, p. 29.