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Question 53. Why is it that to this very day, while they
hold the games at the Capitol, they set Sardians to sale by a
crier, and a certain old man goes before in way of derision,
carrying a child's bauble about his neck, which they call
bulla?
Solution. Was it because a people of the Tuscans called
Veientes maintained a fight a long time with Romulus, and
he took this city last of all, and exposed them and their
king to sale by an outcry, upbraiding him with his madness
and folly? And since the Tuscans were Lydians at first,
and Sardis was the metropolis of the Lydians, so they set
the Veientes to sale under the name of Sardians, and to
this day they keep up the custom in a way of pastime.
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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