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Greeks associated testicles with oath-taking; to eat the testicles of animals sacrificed for purification was therefore a good predictor of one's willingness to commit perjury.
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This page is a summary of: Prairie Oysters and Perjured Roisterers, Mnemosyne, June 2021, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10087.
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