Note 449 — MENSIS MAIUS.
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The best known instances of human sacrifice at Rome are collected in a note to Merivale’s History (vol. iii. 35); and by Sachse, Die Argeer, p. 17. O. Müller thought that it came to Rome from Etruria (Etrusker, ii. 20). For Greece, see Hermann, Griech. Alt. ii. sec. 27; Strabo. 10. 8. See also some valuable remarks in Tylor, Prim. Cult. ii. 362, on substitution in sacrifice.