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θεραπόντων. For human sacrifices at a chief's burial among Caribs, in New Guinea and elsewhere cf. Tylor, P. C. i. 486.

ἵππους. For killing horses for a dead master cf. Tac. Germ. 27, and the evidence of excavations all over Northern Europe. The last instance in Europe was at Trèves in 1781; cf. Tylor, P. C. i. 474.


ὕπτιον, ‘they put half the felloe of a wheel on two stakes, with the hollow side upwards.’


ξύλου: a partitive genitive depending on the antecedent of τό. τόρμος (a ἅπ. λεγ. in H.) = a ‘socket’. H. says nothing about this when he mentions the ξύλα παχέα in § 3.

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