Note 1295 — Chapter VI · MAGICIANS AS KINGS

Homer, Odyssey, xix. 109–114. The passage was pointed out to me by my friend Prof. W. Ridgeway. Naturally this view was not shared by the enlightened Greeks of a later age. See Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 31 sqq.; Polybius, Hist. vi. 6 sq.