Note 10 — Chapter I · THE PATRIARCHAL THEORY
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"They (the Cyclops) have neither assemblies for consultation nor themistes, but everyone exercises jurisdiction over his wives and his children, and they pay no regard to one another."—Odyssey, Book IX, 106 ff., as rendered by Maine, Ancient Law, 120. Cf. Odyssey, Book VI, 5 ff.; Bryant's Trans., I, 144, 215, 216. On the themistes, as inspired commands of the hero-king, handed down to him from Zeus by Themis, see Maine, chap. i; and on the import of the passage in Homer compare ibid., 120, with Freeman, Comparative Politics, 379 n. 20, and Botsford, Athenian Constitution, 3, 4.