Plut. Mor., Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians 35 — The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians

Plut. Mor., Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians 35 — The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians, Plutarch; served verbatim

It was a received opinion amongst many nations, that some of their Gods were propitious only to their men, and others only to their women; which made them sometimes prohibit the one and sometimes the other from being present at their sacred rites and solemnities. But the Lacedaemonians took away this piece of superstition by not excluding either sex from their temples and religious services ; but, as they were always bred up to the same civil exercises, so they were to the same common performances of their holy mysteries, so that by an eaiiy knowledge of each other there might be a real love and friendship established betwixt them, which ever stood most firm upon the basis of religion.

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The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians, Plutarch — translated by John Pulleyn (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
Apparatus shelf + pinned Perseus TEI — Plutarch's Morals (the Moralia), ed. William W. Goodwin, five volumes · 'Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin, Ph. D.', with an introduction by R. W. Emerson; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874 (five volumes; a minority of the TEI transcriptions were keyed from the same publisher's 1878 reprint)
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