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LITHOBO´LIA (λιθοβόλια), a festival celebrated at Troezen in commemoration of two maidens who came there from Crete, and were stoned to death during the civil broils of the place. (Paus. 2.32, 6; Lobeck, Aglaoph. 680; Hermann, Reliq. Alterth. § 52.)
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