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Or is it in accordance with the legend, since Eleuther and Lebadus were the only sons of Lycaon that had no share in the abomination prepared for Zeus,The serving of human flesh. cf. Ovid, Metamorphoses, i. 163 ff. and Frazer’s note on Apollodorus, Bibliotheca iii. 8. 1 (L.C.L. vol. i. pp. 390 ff.). but instead they fled to Boeotia, and there is community of citizenship between the people of Lebadeia and the Arcadians, and do they accordingly send away to Eleutherae those who involuntarily enter the inviolate sanctuary of Zeus?
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Or is it as ArchitimusMüller, Frag. Hist. Graec. vol. iv. p. 317. relates in his Arcadian History, that certain men who entered through ignorance were handed over by the Arcadians to the Phliasians, and by the Phliasians to the Megarians, and, as they were being conducted from Megara to Thebes, they were stopped near EleutheraeA town in Attica not far from the borders of Boeotia. by rain and thunder and other signs from heaven? Whence, in fact, some assert that the place acquired the name of Eleutherae.
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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?
