Note 27 — XI THE LAW OF NATURE

The famous dictum which Herodotus quotes from Pindar, ‘Custom is the king of all mortals and immortals,’ is quoted to show how usage makes a thing seem right to one people and wrong to another, but it was afterwards often taken in the sense of an assertion of the supremacy of Law over all things. Cf. Herod. iii. 38, and Chrysippus, apud Marcian in Justinian’s Digest, i. 3. 2.