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‘ καὶ οἱ δοῦλοι
πάντες, αἱ δὲ γυναῖκες μάλιστα ῥύπτεσθαι τὰς κεφαλὰς καὶ καθαίρειν
ἐπιτηδεύουσιν;᾽’ ἦ διὰ τὸ 1 Σερούιον τὸν βασιλέα κατὰ ταύτην τὴν
ἡμέραν ἐξ αἰχμαλώτου γενέσθαι θεραπαινίδος ἄδειαν ἔργων ἔχουσιν οἱ θεράποντες, τὸ δὲ πλύνειν τὰς κεφαλὰς
ἀρξάμενον ἀπὸ τῶν θεραπαινίδων διὰ τὴν ἑορτὴν ἄχρι τῶν ἐλευθέρων
προῆλθεν;
‘διὰ τί κοσμοῦσι τοὺς παῖδας τοῖς περιδεραίοις, ἃ βούλλας καλοῦσι;᾽’
πότερον ἐπὶ τιμῇ τῶν ἡρπασμένων γυναικῶν,
ὥσπερ ἄλλα πολλά, καὶ τοῦτ᾽ ἐψηφίσαντο τοῖς ἐξ αὐτῶν γεννωμένοις
ὑπάρχειν; ἢ τὴν Ταρκυνίου τιμῶντες ἀνδραγαθίαν; λέγεται
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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