Plutarch's Romane Questions With dissertations on Italian cults, myths, taboos, man-worship, aryan marriage, sympathetic magic and the eating of beans

WAS not this also a significant token to put them in minde, that they ought not to deale in the divine service of the gods, nor meddle with holy and sacred things if there were...

Or for that they measuring and determining the time according to the differences of the moone, they observed in her every moneth three principall changes and diversities: the fi...

Or doth not this parting of the haires, give covertly to understand, a division and separation, as if mariage & the bond of wedlock, were not to be broken but by the sword and w...

As a starting-point for the discussion of this question, two propositions may be laid down as broadly true. The first is, that at some period or other, all Aryans have been in t...

IS it for that the Veientians, who in times past being a puissant State in Tuscane, made warre a long time with _Romulus_: whose citie being the last that he woonne by force, he...

WHETHER is it, because they (supposing their glory to fade and passe away together with these first spoiles) seeke evermore new meanes to winne some fresh marks and monuments of...

The rules of life prescribed for the priest of Jupiter, the Flamen Dialis, are given in part by Plutarch (_Q. R._ 40, 44, 50, 109, 110, 111, 112, and 113),[69] and are a signal...

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It was pointed out in the last paragraph but one that second cousins once removed (the great-grandchildren of a common house-father) might at one time belong to the same joint u...

IS it for that cause, which as _Claudius Rufus_ hath left in writing? for he reporteth that many yeeres ago, and namely, in those daies when _Cajus Sulpitius_ and _Licinius Stol...

Or because it was not lawfull to espouse women of their blood and kinred, therefore permitted they were to entertaine them kindly and familiarly with a kisse, so they proceeded...

In this case Italian animism has held its own, not unsuccessfully, against imported polytheism. Our second instance, however, will show it less successful. When polytheism was s...

The Italians borrowed cults as well as gods from Greece, but "these external additions gathered round the kernel of the Roman religion without affecting or transforming its inmo...

[68] _Ibid._, 188. The date of the rite was 13th August; _cf._ Auson., _De Fer. Rom._, 6; Martial, 12, 67, 2. The asylum for runaway slaves afforded by the temple finds a folk-l...