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Question 30. Why do the bridemen that bring in the
bride require her to say, ‘Where thou Caius art, there am
I Caia’?
Solution. What if the reason be that by mutual agreement she enters presently upon participation of all things,
even to share in the government, and that this is the
meaning of it, Where thou art lord and master of the
family, there am I also dame and mistress of the family;
while these common names they use promiscuously, as the
lawyers do Caius, Seius, Lucius, Titius, and the philosophers use the names of Dion and Theon? Or is it
from Caia Secilia, an honest and good woman, married to
one of Tarquinius's sons, who had her statue of brass
erected in the temple of Sancus? On this statue were
anciently hanged sandals and spindles, as significant memorials of her housewifery and industry.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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