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BUPHONIA

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Greek antiquities, a sacrificial ceremony, forming See also:part of the Dilpolia, a religious festival held on the 14th of the See also:month Skirophorion (June–July) at See also:Athens, when a labouring ox was sacrificed to See also:Zeus Polieus as See also:protector of the See also:city in accordance with a very See also:ancient See also:custom. The ox was driven forward to the See also:altar, on which See also:grain was spread, by members of the See also:family of the Kentriadae (from KEPT MN), a goad), on whom this See also:duty devolved hereditarily.. When it began to eat, one of the family of the Thaulonidae advanced with an See also:axe, slew the ox, then immediately threw away the axe and fled. The axe, as being polluted by See also:murder, was now carried before the See also:court of the See also:Prytaneum (which tried inanimate See also:objects for See also:homicide) and there charged with having caused the See also:death of the ox, for which it was thrown into the See also:sea. Apparently this is an See also:early instance analogous to See also:deodand (q.v.). Although the slaughter of a labouring ox was forbidden, it was considered excusable in the exceptional circumstances; none the less it was regarded as a murder. Porphyrius, De Abstinentia, ii. 29; See also:Aelian, See also:Var. Hist. viii. 3; Schol. Aristoph. Nubes, 485; See also:Pausanias, i.

24, 28; see also See also:

Band, De DiipoliorumSacro Atheniensium (1873).

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