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Why do the Arcadians stone persons who voluntarily enter the Lycaeon; but if such persons enter through ignorance, they send them away to Eleutherae?
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Is it because they were released and set free that this story gained credence, and is the expression to Free Town (Eleutherae) of the same sort as to the land of Sans Souci and you will come to the Seat of Satisfaction?
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Or is it in accordance with the legend, since Eleuther and Lebadus were the only sons of Lycaon that had no share in the abomination prepared for Zeus,The serving of human flesh. cf. Ovid, Metamorphoses, i. 163 ff. and Frazer’s note on Apollodorus, Bibliotheca iii. 8. 1 (L.C.L. vol. i. pp. 390 ff.). but instead they fled to Boeotia, and there is community of citizenship between the people of Lebadeia and the Arcadians, and do they accordingly send away to Eleutherae those who involuntarily enter the inviolate sanctuary of Zeus?
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Or is it as ArchitimusMüller, Frag. Hist. Graec. vol. iv. p. 317. relates in his Arcadian History, that certain men who entered through ignorance were handed over by the Arcadians to the Phliasians, and by the Phliasians to the Megarians, and, as they were being conducted from Megara to Thebes, they were stopped near EleutheraeA town in Attica not far from the borders of Boeotia. by rain and thunder and other signs from heaven? Whence, in fact, some assert that the place acquired the name of Eleutherae.
