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PELOPIA

Volume 16 · 66 words · 1815 Edition

a festival observed by the Eleans in honour of Pelops. A ram was sacrificed on the occasion, which both priests and people were prohibited from partaking of, on pain of excommunication from Jupiter's temple: the neck only was allotted to the officer who provided wood for the sacrifice. This officer was called Zelus; and white poplar was the only wood made use of at this solemnity.