First-Fruits Offering (Aparche)

At Prasiae is a temple of Apollo. Hither they say are sent the first-fruits of the Hyperboreans, and the Hyperboreans are said to hand them over to the Arimaspi, the Arimaspi to the Issedones, from th

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And again Homer instructs us as to what we ought to do before a banquet, namely how we ought to allot the first-fruits of the dishes to the gods. At all events Ulysse and his friends, although in the

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And from this you perceive, my good friend Ulpian, that you may raise another question, who the women are who still have their first husbands? But (for we are still speaking about the parasites) there

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As for the Greeks, not being able to take +Andros [24.9,37.816] (inhabited place), Nisos Andros, Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Andros, they went to Carystus. When they had laid it waste, th

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After that, they divided the spoils and sent the first-fruits of it to Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi; of this was made a man's image twelve cubits high, holding in his hand the figurehead

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Having brought all the loot together, they set apart a tithe for the god of Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi. From this was made and dedicated that tripod which rests upon the bronze three-he

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In addition to the works I have mentioned, there are two tithes dedicated by the Athenians after wars. There is first a bronze Athena, tithe from the Persians who landed at Marathon. It is the work of

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The offering of the Mendeans in Thrace came very near to beguiling me into the belief that it was a representation of a competitor in the pentathlum. It stands by the side of Anauchidas of Elis, and i

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The Plataeans have also a sanctuary of Athena surnamed Warlike; it was built from the spoils given them by the Athenians as their share from the battle of Marathon. It is a wooden image gilded, but th

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Who is he that selects barley (krithologos) among the Opuntians? For sacrifices of very ancient origin most of the Greeks used to employ barley, which the citizens offered as first-fruits of the harve

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The nomads' way of sacrificing is to cut a piece from the victim's ear for first-fruits and throw it over the house; then they wring the victim's neck. They sacrifice to no gods except the sun and moo

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Then (for the city had made a proclamation, that it would give a great reward to any one who took him prisoner, or who brought in his head,) this Drimacus, as he became older, calling one of his most

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Having sent the first-fruits to Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi, the Greeks, in the name of the country generally, made inquiry of the god whether the first-fruits which he had received were

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On the base below the wooden horse is an inscription which says that the statues were dedicated from a tithe of the spoils taken in the engagement at Marathon. They represent Athena, Apollo, and Milti

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There, also, they divided the money received from the sale of the booty. And the tithe, which they set apart for Apollo and for Artemis of the Ephesians, was distributed among the generals, each takin

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Here Xenophon built an altar and a temple with the sacred money, and from that time forth he would every year take the tithe of the products of the land in their season and offer sacrifice to the godd

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Now with respect to dried figs. Those which came from Attica were always considered a great deal the best. Accordingly Dinon, in his History of Persia, says—And they used to serve up at the royal tabl

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When Croesus heard this, he sent Lydians to Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi , telling them to lay his chains on the doorstep of the temple, and to ask the god if he were not ashamed to have

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And the offerings of Croesus at Didyma [27.233,37.35] (historic site), Aydin Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Branchidae of the Milesians, as I learn by inquiry, are equal in weight and like those at D

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The nearest of kin keep the pillar in their house for a year, giving it of the first-fruits and offering it sacrifices; after which they bring the pillars out and set them round about the city.

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