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[267] The oath victim is not burnt nor eaten, but devoted to the nether gods; 3.310. Pausanias (n. 24) tells us that he forgot to ask what was done with the boar on which the competitors swore at Olympia, but he supposes, on the strength of ancient custom, that it was not eaten. λαῖτμα is elsewhere purely Odyssean.

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