Note 634 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
Reading edition
ἥδνα ἀπερείσια: Iliad, xvi, l. 178; Odyssey, xix, l. 529. Iliad, xi, ll. 244 f., mentions one hundred oxen as the price. Cf. Leist, op. cit., 128; Schrader, Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte, 381, 382.