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17 Is it because Ino was fond of her sister and suckled her sister’s son also, but was herself unfortunate in her own children? Or is it that, quite apart from this reason, the custom is morally excellent and produces much goodwill among kindred?

18 Why was it the custom for many of the wealthy to give a tithe of their property to Hercules? Cf. Life of Sulla, chap. xxxv. (474 a); Life of Crassus, ii. (543 d), xii. (550 d).

18 Is it because he also sacrificed a tithe of Geryon’s cattle in Rome? Or because he freed the Romans from paying a tithe to the Etruscans?

18 Or have these tales no historical foundation worthy of credence, but the Romans were wont to sacrifice lavishly and abundantly to Hercules as to an insatiable eater and a good trencher-man?

18 Or was it rather in curtailing their excessive wealth, since it was odious to their fellow-citizens, and in doing away with some of it, as from a lusty bodily vigour that had reached its culmination,Probably an allusion to the Hippocratic maxim quoted in Moralia, 682 e, 1090 b, and often by Galen. did they think that thus Hercules would be especially honoured and pleased by such a way of using up and reducing overabundance, since in his own life he was frugal, self-sufficient, and free from extravagance?

19 Why do they adopt the month of January as the beginning of the new year? Cf. Life of Numa, xviii., xix. (71 e ff.); Lucian, Pseudologista, 8; Varro, De Lingua Latina, vi. 33; Ovid, Fasti, iii. 99-166.

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