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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

petalismo
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From Greek petal, leaf, petal, tree, foil. Ostracism practiced in the city of Syracuse in the middle of the 5th century BC. D. C. against the most powerful who wanted to impose a tyranny. The name of the ejector was written on an olive leaf ( petal) instead of in the ostrakon, the tile piece or the shell.

  



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