Plut. Mor., Roman Questions 60 — Roman Questions

Plut. Mor., Roman Questions 60 — Roman Questions, Plutarch; served verbatim

Question 60. What is the reason that, of Hercules’s two altars, the women do not partake or taste of the things offered on the greater? Solution. Is it not because Carmenta’s women came too late for the sacrifices? The same thing happened also to the Pinarii; whence they were excluded from the sacrificial feast, and fasting while others were feasting, they were called Pinarii (from πεινάω). Or is it upon the account of that fabulous story of the coat and Dejaneira?

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass

Carmenta — a candidate entry

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