All such repasts must have been sacred, but we do not know if they included the Eucharistic rite.
In the canons of Sahak the priest is represented as eating the sins of the people in these repasts.
In fact, even now we find common repasts and common property, as we have seen, in Switzerland.
The first portion will then be subdivided to meet the expenses of religion and of the common repasts.
Sparta had a communal domain of great extent, the produce of which served in some measure to maintain the public repasts.
