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καταβάλλει. The purpose of the ritual was (1) by ‘plucking the end of the rope’ to make the victim seem voluntarily to prostrate itself. (2) Unlike the Jews, to keep the blood in the victim; for this Reinach (A. R. M. p. 181) compares the sacrificial methods of certain tribes in the Altai Mountains. The flesh was mainly eaten by the sacrificer (61. 2). H. as usual notes the contrast to Greek ritual; there was no ‘burning’ of the hair (ἀνακαύσας) as a ‘dedication’ (καταρξάμενος, ii. 45. 1), and no ‘libation’ (ἐπισπείσας).

For the tmesis περὶ ὦν ἔβαλε cf. i. 194. 4 n.

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