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[1230]Ἰ. Σ. Ἀρχέλαος, ἡ Σινασός, p. 82.

[1231]Op. cit. p. 81. The form here is σαρανταρίκια.

[1232]Δελτίον τῆς ἱστορ. καὶ ἐθνολ. ἑταιρ. τῆς Ἑλλάδος, III. p. 337. The form is σαραντάρια.

[1233] See above, p. 373.

[1234] Soph. Antig. 256. Cf. Jebb’s note ad loc., from which I take the further references.

[1235] Aelian, Var. Hist. v. 14.

[1236] Aelian, Hist. Anim. v. 49.

[1237] Cf. Fauriel, Chants de la Grèce Moderne, Discours Préliminaire, p. 40; Μιχαὴλ Σ. Γρηγορόπουλος, ἡ νῆσος Σύμη, p. 46.

[1238]Early Age of Greece, Vol. I. cap. 7.

[1239] Bury, History of Greece, p. 41.

[1240] Rohde, Psyche, cap. I.

[1241] Hom. Il. VI. 417 ff., XXIII. 252 ff., XXIV. 791 ff.; Od. XI. 72 ff. and XII. 11 ff.

[1242]PsycheI. pp. 31–32.

[1243] Cf. Lucian, De Luctu 14, ἐσθῆτα καὶ τὸν ἄλλον κόσμον συγκατέφλεξεν ἣ συγκατώρυξεν.

[1244] Described in Ἐφημερὶς Ἀρχαιολ. 1889, pp. 171 ff.

[1245] Described in Athen. Mittheilungen, 1893, pp. 73–191.

[1246] The perusal of Philios’ narrative leaves the impression that several cases of cremation were discovered. Yet in his concluding summary he says: “Burial, not burning, of the dead was in those times the more prevalent custom, since in one case and one only can we admit that the corpse was not buried but burnt.” I note that Brückner and Pernice (op. cit. p. 149) in referring to Philios’ results tacitly soften his rigid ‘one and one only’ into the more supple ‘one or two.’ For justification of this see Philios, op. cit. pp. 178, 179, 180, 185.

[1247] Hirschfeld, in Annali, 1872, pp. 135, 167, cited by Brückner and Pernice op. cit. p. 148. Κουμανούδης, in Πρακτικὰ, 1873–4, p. 17.

[1248]Op. cit. pp. 91 ff.

[1249]Op. cit. p. 178.

[1250] Brückner and Pernice take this view of the fact, though the words which they use are coloured by their acceptance of Rohde’s theory of propitiatory offerings to the dead. ‘Vor der Beerdigung, so scheint es nach den Funden des Herrn Philios, sind an der Grabstätte des öfteren Brandopfer dargebracht worden.’ Op. cit. p. 151.

[1251] See op. cit. pp. 78–9.

[1252] See above, p. 347.

[1253]Il.XXIV. 719 ff.

[1254] Cf. Athen. Mittheil. 1893, p. 103.

[1255] Plutarch, Solon 20.

[1256] Lysias, Or. XII. 18, 19.

[1257] Lucian, de Luctu, 12 and 13.

[1258]Hom. 32 in Mat. p. 306.

[1259] Preserved among the archives of Zante, which the kindness of Mr Leonidas Zoës enabled me to inspect.

[1260]Psyche, I. pp. 209 and 360. From this source I draw several of the following references.

[1261] Tsountas in Ἐφημερὶς Ἀρχαιολ. 1888, p. 136.

[1262] Plut. Lycurg. 27.

[1263] Iambl. Vit. Pythag. 154.

[1264] Pliny, N. H. XXXV. 160.

[1265] Dem. Orat. 43 § 71.

[1266]Antig. 1201. Prof. Jebb in his note on this passage expresses the opinion that the θάλλοι νεοσπάδες were not fuel: in view of the Attic law above cited I am inclined to dissent. He also takes κλήματα in Ar. Eccles. 1031 to mean ‘olive twigs’ and not, as more usual, ‘vine-shoots.’ I pass by the passage as doubtful evidence.

[1267] Ross, Arch. Aufs. I. 31.

[1268] Artemid. Oneirocr. IV. 57.

[1269] Herod. V. 8.