105
Or, because they seized the maiden daughters of the Sabines at a holiday festival, and thereby became involved in war, did they come to regard it as ill-omened to marry maidens on holy days?
106
Why do the Romans reverence Fortuna Primigenia, Cf. 281 e, supra, 322 f, infra; Cicero, De Legibus, ii. 11; Livy, xxxiv. 53. or First-born, as one might translate it?
106
Is it because by Fortune, as they say, it befell Servius, born of a maidservant, to become a famous king of Rome? This is the assumption which the majority of Romans make.
106
Or is it rather because Fortune supplied the origin and birth of Rome? Cf. 320 b ff., infra.
106
Or does the matter have an explanation more natural and philosophic, which assumes that Fortune is the origin of everything, and Nature acquires its solid frame by the operation of Fortune, whenever order is created in any store of matter gathered together at haphazard.
107
Why do the Romans call the Dionysiac artists Cf.Moralia, 87 f. histriones Cf. Livy, vii. 2; closely followed by Valerius Maximus, ii. 4. 4.?