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intro Many of the matters discussed in the Roman Questions are to be found treated elsewhere in Plutarch’s work, particularly in the Roman Lives. The Lives of Romulus and of Numa are especially rich in parallel passages: for very many of the Roman customs were thought to go back to the earliest period of Roman history.

intro The book was probably published after the death of Domitian in a.d, 96, though this is a not quite certain inference from the text (276 e). The work is No. 138 in Lamprias’s catalogue of Plutarch’s works. The . ms. tradition (on which see J. B. Titchener, University of Illinois Studies, ix., 1924) is good.

1 Why do they bid the bride touch fire and water?

1 Is it that of these two, being reckoned as elements or first principles, fire is masculine and water feminine, Cf. Varro, De Lingua Latina, v. 61. The genders are those of ignis and aqua, not those of the Greek words. and fire supplies the beginnings of motion and water the function of the subsistent element or the material?

1 Or is it because fire purifies and water cleanses, and a married woman must remain pure and clean?

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?

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