Note 145.1 — The Evolution of Religion
Reading edition
Vide Cults of the Greek States, vol. i. pp. 66-69: Steinmetz, op. cit., vol. ii. p. 345, discusses a record concerning the Ossetes, who live habitually in the system of the blood-feud, to the effect that a person guilty of parricide was surrounded and burnt in his house by the whole people, and he suggests that this may be the first example among them of a State cognisance of murder.