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See also: refuge
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In See also: ancient See also: Greece, an See also: asylum was an inviolable " refuge for persons fleeing from• pursuit and in See also: search of See also: protection
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In a general sense, all See also: Greek temples" and altars were inviolable, that is, it was a religious See also: crime to remove by force any See also: person or thing once under the protection of a deity: But it was only in the See also: case of a small number of temples that this protecting right of a deity was recognized with, See also: common consent
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Such were the sanctuaries of See also: Zeus Lycaeus in See also: Arcadia, of See also: Poseidon in . the See also: island of Calauria, and of See also: Apollo at See also: Delos; they were, however, numerous in See also: Asia Minor
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They guaranteed absolute security • to the suppliant within their limits
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The right of sanctuary,: originally possessed by all temples;: appears to have become limited to a few in consequence of abuses of it
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Asylums in this sense were See also: peculiar to the Greeks
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The asylum of See also: Romulus (See also: Livy i..8), which was probably the altar of Veiovis, cannot be considered as such
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Under See also: Roman dominion, the rights of existing Greek sanctuaries were at first confirmed, but their number was considerably reduced by Tiberius
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Under the See also: Empire, the statues of the emperors and the eagles:. of the legions were made refuges against acts of violence
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Generally speaking, the classes of persons who claimed the rights of asylum were slaves who had been maltreated by their masters, soldiers defeated and pursued by the enemy, and criminals who feared a trial or who had escaped before See also: sentence was passed
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. (See See also: treatises De Asylis Graecis, by See also: Forster, 1847; Jaenisch, x868; Barth, 1.888.)
With the establishment of See also: Christianity, the See also: custom of asylum or sanctuary (q.v.) became attached to the See also: church or churchyard
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