Note 166 — Chapter II · THE ANTHESTERIA. The Ritual of Ghosts and Sprites.
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The full and somewhat revolting details as to how omens were taken from σφάγια do not concern us here; they are given in full by the scholiast on Eur. Phoenissae 1255; see P. Stengel, Hermes 1899, XXXIV. p. 642.