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nowhere find again.’ The wife, indeed, of Intaphernes does the same in Herodotus. Cp. Antigone, 909-912 : Reinhold Klotz, *Antrittsvorlesung*, 15th April, 1850 (Leipzig, 1853) ; Finck, 764 and note ; Lippert, *Kulturgesch.*, ii, 55 ; Schweiger-Lerchenfeld, *Frauen d. Orients*, 358 f.; etc. “ In a folk-song the choice is left a girl whether she will save her brother, or save her beloved from certain death. She decides for the brother : ‘ For,’ said she, ‘ I can find a lover at once, I only need walk once through the village ; but I can never get a brother again.’ ” Fr. S. Krauss, *Sitte u. Brauch d. Südslaven*, p. 166. Cp. *Ztschr. d. Ver. f. Volksk.*, Bd. 16, p. 459 (South Arabian form). And in Swinburne’s “ Atalanta in Calydon ” Atalanta exclaims : “ For all things else men may renew, Yea, son for son the gods may give and take, But never a brother or sister any more ” ; and she kills her own son, who has slain her brothers (ed. Stoddard, p. 33). So, too, Edward III of Sicily mourned his father’s death more than his son’s, for : *Jactura filiorum facilis est, cum cotidie multiplicentur ; parentum vero mors irremediabilis est, quia nequeant restaurari* (Schultz, *Das höfische Leben*, ii, 472, note 5). So, too, K., i, 173.20 : Parents easily get other and good children again, but these latter never get parents again. Cp. B., i, 230.13. And Dietrich in Konrad of Würzburg’s *Engelhard* resolves to kill his two children, and to heal his leper friend with their blood, since a man, he says, can always get children again, but not a friend (6184 ff.).