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AGROTERAS THUSIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 427 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGROTERAS THUSIA , an See also:

annual festival held at Agrae near See also:Athens, in See also:honour of See also:Artemis Agrotera, in fulfilment of a See also:vow made by the See also:city, before the See also:battle of See also:Marathon, to offer in See also:sacrifice a number of goats equal to that of the Persians slain in the conflict. The number being so See also:great, it was decided to offer 500 goats yearly. See See also:Plutarch, De Malignitate Herodoti, 26; See also:Xenophon, Anab. iii. 2. I2; See also:Aelian, See also:Var. Hist. ii. 25; Schol. on See also:Aristophanes, See also:Shiites, 66o.

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