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 The ancient Syrians abtained from every pecies of animal food.—See ditto, Book IV. parag. 15.

By the laws of Triptolemus the Athenians were trictly commanded to abstain from all living creatures.—See Porphyr. de Abtinentia.

Even o late as the days of Draco, the Attic oblations conited only of the fruits of the earth.—See Potter's Antiquities of Greece, vol. i. p. 188.

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