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Plutarch, Roman Questions, 290d

nan Nor, in fact, did the men of old think that this animal was wholly pure, for it was never sacrificed to any of the Olympian gods; and when it is sent to the cross-roads as a supper for the earth-goddess Hecatê, it has its due portion among sacrifices that avert and expiate evil. In Sparta they immolate puppies to the bloodiest of the gods, Enyalius; and in Boeotia the ceremony of public purification is to pass between the parts of a dog which has been cut in twain. The Romans themselves, in the month of purification, at the Wolf Festival, which they call the Lupercalia, sacrifice a dog. Hence it is not out of keeping that those who have attained to the office of serving the highest and purest god should be forbidden to make a dog their familiar companion and housemate.

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blood,and war	Ekroth (2013) 258
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children	Ekroth (2013) 258
daughters,of erechtheus	Ekroth (2013) 258
enemy	Ekroth (2013) 258
enyalios	Ekroth (2013) 258
erechtheus	Ekroth (2013) 258
hagnon	Ekroth (2013) 258
hekate	Ekroth (2013) 258
heroes of salamis	Ekroth (2013) 258
hyakinthids	Ekroth (2013) 258
iconographical representations of sacrifice	Ekroth (2013) 258
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salamis	Ekroth (2013) 258
skedasos	Ekroth (2013) 258
suicide	Ekroth (2013) 258
war,and hero-cult	Ekroth (2013) 258
war,and sacrifices'	Ekroth (2013) 258
war dead,sacrifices to the war dead	Ekroth (2013) 258
war dead	Ekroth (2013) 258