Note 205 — Quest. CV., CVI.
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To this the poet’s observation might well be applied, Tantum religio potuit saudere malorum! Lucet. de Nat. Rer. Lib. 1. And that human sacrifices were offered, appears from what we read of the king of Moab, who took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering, 2 Kings iii. 27.