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1 Or is it that, just as fire without moisture is unsustaining and arid, and water without heat is unproductive and inactive, Cf.Moralia, 650 b; Servius on Virgil, Aeneid, iv. 167; Lactantius, Institutiones Divinae, ii. 9. 21. so also male and female apart from each other are inert, but their union in marriage produces the perfection of their life together?

1 Or is it that they must not desert each other, but must share together every sort of fortune, even if they are destined to have nothing other than fire and water to share with each other?

2 Why in the marriage rites do they light five torches, neither more nor less, which they call cereones?

2 Is it, as Varro has stated, that while the praetors use three, the aediles have a right Cf. the Lex Coloniae Genetivae, column 62 (C.I.L. i.² 594 = ii. 5439), where it is specified that the aediles shall have the right and power to possess, among other things, cereos. to more, and it is from the aediles that the wedding party light their torches?

2 Or is it because in their use of several numbers the odd number was considered better and more perfect for various purposes and also better adapted to marriage? For the even number admits division and its equality of division suggests strife and opposition: the odd number, however, cannot be divided into equal parts at all, but whenever it is divided it always leaves behind a remainder of the same nature as itself. Now, of the odd numbers, five is above all the nuptial number; for three is the first odd number, and two is the first even number, and five is composed of the union of these two, as it were of male and female. Cf.Moralia, 288 d-e, infra, 374 a, 429 a, and 388 a with the note on the last passage; Lydus, De Mensibus, ii. 4.

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