The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c17.149
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¹ Bonner (*Classical Philology*, vol. vi, pp. 12–36) finds in Homer no criminal law, except in the form of the punishment by the whole people of an offender whose wrong-doings involved the whole people in danger of reprisals; the function of the king or Gerontes he traces in civil cases to voluntary arbitration. It is of interest that Homer (p. 32) knows nothing of witnesses; the Vedic texts likewise seem to ignore them.