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Question 2. What woman was that among the Cumans
called Onobatis?
Solution. This was one of the women taken in adultery, which they brought into the market-place, and set
her upon a certain stone to be seen of all; from thence
they took her and set her on ass-back, and led her round
about the city, and afterwards set her up again upon the
stone; the rest of her life she led under disgrace. Her
they called Onobatis (the woman that rode upon an ass);
hence they abominated the stone as unclean. There was
also a certain magistrate among them, called Phylactes
(a conservator); he that had this office kept the prison for
the rest of his time; but at the nocturnal convention of the
senators he came into the council, and laying hands on the
kings led them forth, and detained them in custody until
the senate had determined concerning them, by a vote
given in private, whether they had acted unrighteously
or not.
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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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