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FOOTNOTES:
[51] See the account of the traveller Pausanias.
[52] "There are," says Hesiod, "30,000 gods on the fruitful earth."
[53] Greek scholars formed a select society of twelve gods and
goddesses, but their choice was arbitrary, and all did not agree on the
same series. The Greeks of different countries and of different epochs
often represented the same god under different forms. Further, the
majority of the gods seem to us to have vague and undetermined
attributes; this is because they were not the same everywhere.
[54] Iliad, viii., 18.
[55] In the dialogue "Eutyphron."
[56] Taine, "Philosophy of Art."
[57] Herodotus, vi., 27
[58] Xenophon, "Anabasis," iii, 2.
[59] This idea gained currency only in the later periods of Grecian
history.--ED.
[60] There were similar amphictyonies at Delos, Calauria, and Onchestus.
[61] The special charge against Cirrha was the levying of toll on
pilgrims coming to Delphi.--ED.


CHAPTER XI
SPARTA
THE PEOPLE

=Laconia.=--When the Dorian mountaineers invaded the Peloponnesus, the
main body of them settled at Sparta in Laconia.


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