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λήιτον (town hall) = δημόσιον, from λέως, λαός: so λειτουργία, munus publicum.

ἢν δὲ ἐσέλθῃ: more exactly ἢν δὲ ἐσερχόμενος ἁλίσκηται (cf. inf.). H. seems only to give us an account of the penalty in<*>olved in failure. The representative of the old Minyan house, if taken in the act of entering the town hall, was shut up there till the <*>east of the god came round, when he was led to the altar; but apparently he was as a rule allowed to escape and a ram sacrificed in his stead. Henceforth, however, he must live in exile under the ban of the god, and if he returned, the ceremony was repeated, and in times of calamity the human sacrifice really offered (cf. sup. § 1 n.).

ὥς τ᾽ (sc. ἔλεγον, as with μετέπειτα δ᾽ ὥς, § 1). The natural order would be ἔτι δὲ πρὸς τούτοισι (ἔλεγον) ὡς.

If the text be sound ἐξηγέοντο takes up the ἔλεγον already understood in the previous sentences, while the resumption of the singular instead of the plural fixes attention on the single victim in each particular case.

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