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Ἀίτια Ῥωμαϊκά Plutarch
25 Or is it even as men now, who have offered their prayers and oblations, are wont to tarry and sit a while in the temples, Cf.Life of Numa, xiv. (69 e-70 a); Propertius ii. 28. 45-46; see also Lewy in Philologus, lxxxiv. p. 378. and so they would not let busy days succeed holy days immediately, but made some pause and breathing-space between, since business brings with it much that is distasteful and undesired?
26 Why do women in mourning wear white robes and white head-dresses?
26 Do they do this, as men say the Magi do, arraying themselves against Hades and the powers of darkness, and making themselves like unto Light and Brightness?
26 Or is it that, just as they clothe the body of the dead in white, they think it proper that the relatives should also wear this colour? They adorn the body thus since they cannot so adorn the soul; and they wish to send forth the soul bright and pure, since it is now set free after having fought the good fight in all its manifold forms.

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