A Thracian slave in Menander (ap. Strabo, p. 297) says Γαμεῖ γὰρ ἡμῶν οὐδὲ εἷς, εἰ μὴ δέκ᾽ ἢ Ἕνδεκα γυναῖκας δώδεκά τ᾽ ἢ πλείους τινές.
Suttee (cf. Tusc. Disp. v. 27. 78), like the Scyth custom (iv. 71 n.), is based on the belief that the soul requires in another world what it has enjoyed in this. It was widely prevalent among Teutonic and Sclavonic races as well as in India (Diodor. xix. 33, 34; cf. M. Polo, Bk. III, ch. 17, ii. 341; Westermarck, H. of M. p. 125 f.).