It was considered as being so important, that when it happened to expire, all public spectacles were forbidden till the crime was expiated. […] Among the Egyptians it was a capital crime to kill any of the sacred animals; but if an ibis, or a hawk, were destroyed accidentally, the unfortunate author of the deed was put to death by the multitude, without form of law. […] What was the crime and what the punishment of Sisyphus? What was the crime and what the punishment of Phlegyas? […] Crimes, frauds, and murders, are the fiend’s delight, The rage of death, and slaughters of the fight.