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Question 27. What is the reason that at Rhodes the
crier never enters into the chapel of Ocridion?
Solution. Was it because Ochimus espoused his daughter Cydippe to Ocridion? But Cercaphus, who was brother
to Ochimnus, falling in love with the maid, persuaded the
crier (for it was the custom to fetch the brides by the crier)
to bring her to him when she should be delivered to him.
This being accordingly done, Cercaphus got the maid and
fled; afterwards, when Ochimus was grown old, he returned. Wherefore it was enacted by the Rhodians that a
crier should not enter into the chapel of Ocridion, because
of the injustice done by him.
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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