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whom this law was made, Attica was much infested with wolves.

No one shall kill an ox that labours at the plough.

No one shall kill a lamb of a year old, nor an ox. This law was made when these animals were scarce in Attica.

Hurt no living creatures.

Triptolemus.

That fishmonger shall suffer imprisonment, that shall over-rate his fish, or take less than he first profered them for.

Fishmongers shall not lay their stinking fish in water to make them more saleable.

All counterfeiters, debasers, and diminishers of the current coin shall lose their lives. This law was observed in most cities.

No man shall have two trades.

No man shall sell perfumes. Solon.

He who gets the highest repute by his profession, and is reckoned the most ingenious in his calling, shall have his diet in the Prytaneum, and be honoured with the highest seat.

That ferryman shall be prohibited from following his employ that shall upset his boat, though unwillingly, in ferrying over to Salamis.

No man shall have more than one wife.

Cecrops.

No Athenian is to marry any other than a citizen. No heiress may marry out of her own kindred, but shall resign herself and fortune to her nearest relation.

If a father bury all his sons, he may entail his estate on his married daughters.

A guardian shall not marry the mother of those orphans, with whose estate he is entrusted. Solon.

Harlots shall wear flowered garments, to distinguish them from respectable women.

By some of the laws, which I forbear to transcribe, it is plain that practices forbidden to the Israelites on

pain of death, where frequent among the Athenians, and that even Socrates himself was not free from them, is inferred from some expressions in ancient writers.

All legitimate sons shall have an equal portion of their father's inheritance.

No tomb is to consist of more work than ten men can finish in three days, neither is it to be erected archwise or adorned with statues. Solon.

No grave is to have over it, or by it, more than three pillars of three cubits high, a table, and labellum, (or little vessel to contain victuals for the ghost's maintenance.)

Too great concourse of people at funerals is forbidden.

Let not the corpse be burned with more than three garments. Solon.

Let no woman tear their faces, or make lamentations or dirges at funerals. Solon.

At every one's death there shall be paid to the priestess of Minerva, who is placed in the citadel, a chænex of barley, the like of wheat, and an obolus. Hippias.

Children and heirs shall perform the accustomed rites of presentation.

Slaves, when dead, shall not be embalmed, nor honoured with a funeral banquet.

Let there be no panegyrics, unless at funerals publicly solemnized, and then they shall not be pronounced by a kinsman, but by one appointed for the purpose by the public.

They who fall in the field are to have obsequies celebrated at the public charge.

Let the father have the privilege of pronouncing a funeral encomium over that son who has died valiantly in battle.

He shall have an annual oration spoken in his honour on the day of battle who receives his death with undaunted prowess in the front of the battle.

Do not speak evil of the dead, no, not if their children should provoke you. Solon.

His eyes shall both be plucked out who hath blinded a one-eyed person. Solon.

He who steals shall pay double the value of the thing stolen to the owner, and as much to the public exchequer.

He that takes away any thing that is not his own shall die for it. Draco.

They who have been negligent in carrying on any business shall answer for that negligence.

No entertainment is to consist of above thirty guests. All cooks hired to dress up dishes for entertainments are to carry in their names to the Gynæconomi.

None but mixed wine shall be drunk at banquets.

Let pure and unmixed wines be reserved till afterwards, for a relishing taste to the honour of the good genius.

The Areopagites are to take cognizance of all drunkards.

The time for military service shall be from the age of eighteen years to forty.

Till twenty, men shall remain in Attica to be ready in arms; after that they shall serve out of Attica.

He shall be infamous who serves in the cavalry before he has undergone the accustomed probation.

The cavalry shall be constituted of the most puissant and wealthy Athenians.

Soldiers shall not observe the punctilios of spruceness and foppery in their hair.

He shall suffer death who hath betrayed a garrison, ship, or army.

All deserters to the enemy shall undergo the same

sentence.

The polemarch shall lead up the right wing of the army.

Let him be infamous who throws away

his arms.

Let deserters from the navy be punished with infamy. All disabled and wounded soldiers shall be maintained out of the public funds. This was enacted by Pisis

tratus.

Their parents and children shall be taken care of that are cut off in battle. If parents are killed, their children shall be put to school at the public charge, and when come to maturity shall be presented with a whole suit of armour, settled every one in his respective calling, and honoured with first seats in all public places. Solon.

They shall be prosecuted for ingratitude, who do not retaliate kindnesses.

An informer who alledges truth shall be secure, but if falsehood he shall suffer death.

He shall be infamous who stands neuter in any public sedition. Solon..

He shall be denied burial within Attica, and his goods exposed to sale, who shall be found guilty of perfidious behaviour towards the state or of sacrilege.

He that hath betrayed his country shall not enter into Attica's borders; if he do he shall expiate his crime by the same punishment as he, who, though condemned by the Areopagites to banishment, returns.

Those compacts shall stand good that have been approved by the judges.

Let there be an amnesty of all former dissensions, and let no one be liable to be called in question or reproached for any thing done formerly. This law was made after the expulsion of the thirty tyrants, to cancel all former differences, and was sworn to by the Archons, the senate of five hundred, and all the commonalty of Athens.

No stranger shall be wronged or injured.

Put the bewildered traveller in his way, and be hospitable to strangers.

No seller of rings shall keep by him the signature of the ring he has sold. Solon.

The borough and the name of one's father shall be inserted in all deeds, compacts, suits, and other concerns.

He shall die who leaves the city to reside in the Piræus. This law was enacted by Solon to prevent discord among the Athenians.

Of the first Authors of Religious Worship in Greece.

In order to ascertain who were the first Authors of the religious worship in Greece, it is necessary previously to determine, from what source the population of Greece derived its origin, more especially the population of that state, which took the lead of all the rest, in arts and learning-in science and religion, viz. Athens. On this subject Herodotus and Plutarch are at variance with each other: the former asserting that Athens was first founded by a colony from Egypt: the latter controverting this opinion.

Totally disregarding this diversity of sentiment, let it be our business to discover what facts are to be elicited from the more ancient and authentic records of the scriptures, and the monuments of remotest ages, in favour of the assertion of Herodotus; that Athens was formerly a colony from Egypt.

In order to discover the accuracy or the fallacy of this position, our inquiries will naturally be directed to Egypt itself in the first instance. Egypt is a country to the very name of which a certain degree of veneration is inseparably attached: the circumstances which have probably contributed most to this feeling, are the very high antiquity of this kingdom; the impervious obscurity which envelope its rise and progress and the high character bestowed upon it for arts and learning.

All the information that we are able to obtain respecting this highly interesting country, during the first

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