Gr. Antiq. [f. late Gr. κριοβόλιον, in 4th c. L. criobolium, f. κρῑοβόλ-ος ram-slaying.] A sacrifice in which many rams were slaughtered; a bath in the blood of rams.
[1850. Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Anc. Art (ed. 2), § 422. A kriobolion of the Phrygian worship.]
1879. Farrar, St. Paul (1884), I. xviii. 187, note. Ibid. (1882), Early Chr., 3, note. The taurobolies and kriobolies (baths in the blood of bulls and rams) mark the extreme sensuality of superstition.
