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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 427 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGROTERAS THUSIA  , an

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annual festival held at Agrae near
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Athens, in
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honour of
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Artemis Agrotera, in fulfilment of a
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vow made by the
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city, before the
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battle of
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Marathon, to offer in
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sacrifice a number of goats equal to that of the Persians slain in the conflict . The number being so
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great, it was decided to offer 500 goats yearly . See
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Plutarch, De Malignitate Herodoti, 26;
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Xenophon, Anab. iii . 2 . I2;
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Aelian,
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Var . Hist. ii . 25; Schol. on
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Aristophanes,
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Shiites, 66o .

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