by various authors, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities… (1890)
“ Nicom. § 17) has been relied upon by the advocates of the distinction. But the law of murder must have been a public and religious law: and this we find was ἐν τῷ ἄχονι (Lex ap. Dem. c. Aristocr. p. 629.28: read ἐν τῷ ά ἄχονι, i. e. πρώτῳ ἄχονι, with Cobet, Var. Lect. p. 123; the ἄχονες being always mentioned in the plural) .The words τρίγωνοι and τετράγωνοι, used of the ἄχονες and κύρβεις, have been wrongly explained by some authorities, both ancient and modern, as applying to the separate tablets, and not to the whole contrivance (κατασκεύαχμα) . ”
