[275] Grimm justly remarks that sacrifice was a common feature of heathen medicine; “great cures and the averting of pestilence,” says he, “could only be effected by sacrifice.” Teutonic Mythology (translation), p. 1150.
[276] The Past in the Present, p. 164. New York, 1881.
[277] Itinerary of Greece (translation), vol. ii, p. 211.
[278] Pantheon, p. 271.
[279] See Levit., xvi et seq.
[280] Ch. ii, 39.
[281] Ammon, Knuphis, or Agathodæmon of later times.
[282] Ancient History of the East, vol. i, p. 326.
[283] The language of the Hebrews is essentially the same: es or ez means a goat.
[284] ἀίξ.