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οἰκότι χρεωμένων (sc. λόγῳ): cf. iii. 111. 1 λόγῳ οἰκότι χρεώμενοι.

σώματα ὅλα. The practice of burning the whole body of the victim was originally common to the Phoenicians and Jews (Porphyr. de Abst. iv. 15; Lev. vi. 23); later the Carthaginians, like the Greeks, burnt only certain parts (cf. Meltzer, op. cit. ii. 147-9), but the older ritual might naturally be followed on so great an occasion.

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