Plut. Mor., Greek Questions 46 — Greek Questions

Plut. Mor., Greek Questions 46 — Greek Questions, Plutarch; served verbatim

Question 46. What is the reason that the Trallians call the pulse ὄροβος by the name καθαρτής (i.e. purifying), and use it especially in expiations and purifications.Solution. Was it because the Leleges and Minyae, in former times driving out the Trallians, possessed themselves of the city and that country, and afterwards the Trallians returned and conquered them; and as many of the Leleges as were not slain or fled, but by reason of indigency and weakness were left there, they made no account of whether they lived or died, and therefore enacted a law that any Trallian that slew one of the Minyae or Leleges should be guiltless, provided only that he paid a measure of this pulse to the relatives of the slain person?

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Greek Questions, Plutarch — translated by Isaac Chauncy (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
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