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σταιτίνας. This offering of symbolic ‘dough’ cakes is a genuine native custom, and is found elsewhere, e.g. among the Chinese the poor make paper votive offerings (cf. too Plut. Luc. 10 for it at Cyzicus). For such symbolism cf. Tylor, P. C. ii. 405.

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