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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 harvest. Accordingly
they called the officer who presided at the sacrifices
and brought these first-fruits the Barley-selector.
They had two priests : one appointed for sacrifices to
the gods, the other for sacrifices to the spirits.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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