Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Agendĭcum, Aegobolium

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Aegobolium

（αἰγοβόλιον). A ceremony of purification in which the candidate was placed in a pit and covered with perforated boards, over which a goat was slain. The blood flowing down into the pit stained its occupant. If a bull was used, the rite was called taurobolium; and if a ram, criobolium. See Taurobolium.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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