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κεφαλήν. Cf. the treatment of the skulls of enemies by the Scyths (c. 65), and for a similar custom among the Boii, Livy xxiii. 24, among the Lombards, Gibbon, v. 12.

γενέσια: the feast of the dead, on the anniversary of death, as opposed to the γενέθλια ‘the birthday feast’ (Ammonius, de Diff. Voc. p. 35).

ἰσοκρατέες. The reference here is probably not to a system of primitive matriarchy, but to the fact that, in a low state of civilization, men and women alike have to hunt, &c.; cf. Tac. Germ. 46.

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