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The tale, however, that no shadow is cast by a person who enters the Lycaeon is not true, although it has acquired widespread credence. cf. Pausanias, viii. 38. 6; Polybius, xvi. 12. 7, whose source is Theopompus. Is it because the air turns to clouds, and lowers darkly upon those who enter? Or is it because he that enters is condemned to death, and the followers of Pythagoras declare that the spirits of the dead cast no shadow, Cf.Moralia, 564 d. See also Dante, Purgatorio, iii. 25-30, 94-97. neither do they blink? Or is it because it is the sun which causes shadow, but the law deprives him that enters of the sunlight?
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This too they relate allegorically: he that enters is called a deer. Wherefore, when Cantharion the Arcadian deserted to the Eleans while they were at war with the Arcadians, and with his booty crossed the inviolate sanctuary, even though he fled to Sparta after peace had been made, the Spartans surrendered him to the Arcadians, since the god ordered them to give back the deer.
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Who was the hero Eunostus in Tanagra, and why may no women enter his grove?