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Ἀίτια Ῥωμαϊκά

Ἀίτια Ῥωμαϊκά Plutarch
30 Is her entrance into the house upon fixed terms, as it were, at once to share everything and to control jointly the household, and is the meaning, then, Wherever you are lord and master, there am I lady and mistress? These names are in common use also in other connexions, just as jurists speak of Gaius Seius and Lucius Titius, John Doe and Richard Roe. and philosophers of Dion and Theon. Cf.Moralia, 1061 c.
30 Or do they use these names because of Gaia Caecilia,Probably not the same as Tanaquil, wife of Tarquinius Priscus; but Cf. Pliny, Natural History, viii. 48 (194). consort of one of Tarquini sons, a fair and virtuous woman, whose statue in bronze stands in the temple of Sanctus?We should probably emend to Sancus; the same mistake is made in the mss. of Propertius, iv. 9. 71-74, where see the excellent note of Barber and Butler. And both her sandals and her spindle were, in ancient days, dedicated there as tokens of her love of home and of her industry respectively.
31 Why is the far-famed Talassio The traditional Roman spelling seems to be with -ss-. sung at the marriage ceremony? Cf.Life of Romulus, xv. (26 c), Life of Pompey, iv. (620 f); Livy, i. 9. 12.
31 Is it derived from talasia (spinning)? For they call the wool-basket (talaros) talasus. When they lead in the bride, they spread a fleece beneath her: she herself brings with her a distaff and her spindle, and wreaths her husband’s door with wool.

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