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 62 HISTORY OF Gin.ECK. adoption of prisoners by the North American Indians, as well as the universal prevalence and efficacy of the ceremony of adoption in the Grecian and Roman world, exhibit to us a solemn formal- ity under certain circumstances, originating an union and affections similar to those of kindred. Of this same nature were the phratries and gentes at Athens, the curire and gentes at Rome, but they were peculiarly modified by the religious imagi- nation of the ancient world, which always traced back the past time to gods and heroes : and religion thus supplied both the common genealogy as their basis, and the privileged communion of special sacred rites as means of commemoration and perpet- uity. The gentes, both at Athens and in other parts of Greece, bore a patronymic name, the stamp of their believed common paternity : we find the Asklepiadas in many parts of Greece, the Aleuadae in Thessaly, the Midylida?, Psalychidoe, Blepsiada Euxenidae, at JEgina, the Branchidse at Miletus, the Nebri- doe at Kos, the lamidae and Klytiadae at Olympia, the Ake- Btoridae at Argos, the Kinyradte in Cyprus, the Penthilkbe at Mitylene, 1 the Talthybiadie at Sparta, not less than the Kodridae, Eumolpidre, Phytalidae, Lykomedce, Butadre, Euneidas, Hesychidae, Brytiadae, &c., in Attica. 2 To each of these corre- to use the Greek expression. See the Titul. 63 of the Salic law, as quoted by Eichhorn, /. c. Professor Koutorga of St. Petersburg (in his Essai sur 1'Organisation de la Tribu dans 1'Antiquite, translated from Russian into French by M. Chopin, Paris, 1839) has traced out and illustrated the fundamental analogy between the social classification, in early times, of Greeks, Romans, Germans, and Russians (see especially, pp. 47, 213). Respecting the early history of Attica, however, many of his positions are advanced upon very untrust- worthy evidence (see p. 123, seq.). 1 Pindar, Pyth. viii, 53 ; Isthm. vi, 92 ; Nem. vii, 103 ; Strabo, ix, p. 421 ; Stephan. Byz. v, Kwf; Herodot v, 44; vii, 134; ix, 37 ; Pausan. x, 1,4; Kallimachns, Lavacr. Pallad. 33 ; Schol. Pindar. Pyth. ii. 27 ; Aristot. Pol. v, 8, 13; 'AAevutJwv r<nf Trpurovf, Plato, Mcnon. 1, which marks them as a numerous gens. See Buttmann, Dissert, on the Aleuadze in the Mytholo- gus, vol. ii, p. 246. Bacchiadae at Corinth, tdidoaav icai f/-)ovro k u/./.r,/.uv (Herod, v, 92). Theseus, 12; Themistokles, 1; Dcmosth. cont. Ner. p. 1365; Polemo ap Sehol. ad Soph. CEdip. Kol. 489; Plutarch, Vit. x, Orator, pp. 841-344 See the Dissertation of O. Muller De Minerva Poliade. c. 2.
 * Harpokration. v. 'ETeopovrudcu, Bovradai ; Thucyd. viii, 53 ; Plutarch,