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Note 1068 — Chapter XVIII · RITES AND CEREMONIES. (continued 2)

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Details in Smith’s ‘Dic. of Gr. and Rom. Ant.’ and Pauly, ‘Real-Encyclopedie,’ s.v. ‘amphidromia,’ ‘lustratio,’ ‘sacrificium,’ ‘funus’; Meiners, ‘Gesch. der Religionen,’ book vii.; Lomeyer, ‘De Veterum Gentilium Lustrationibus’; Montfaucon, ‘L’Antiquité Expliquée,’ &c. Special passages; Homer, Il. vi. 266; Eurip. Ion. 96; Theocrit. xxiv. 95; Virg. Æn. ii. 719; Plaut. Aulular. iii. 6; Pers. Sat. ii. 31; Ovid. Fast. i. 669, ii. 45, iv. 727; Festus, s.v. ‘aqua et ignis,’ &c. The obscure subject of lustration in the mysteries is here left untouched.

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