64
Or does the custom also show a kindly feeling towards the servants? For they are not so well satisfied with taking as with partaking, since they believe that they thus in some manner share the table with their masters. Cf. Horace, Satires, ii. 6. 66-67.
64
Or should no sacred thing be suffered to be empty, and the table is a sacred thing?
65
Why does the husband approach his bride for the first time, not with a light, but in darkness?
65
Is it because he has a feeling of modest respect, since he regards her as not his own before his union with her? Or is he accustoming himself to approach even his own wife with modesty?
65
Or, as Solon Cf.Moralia, 138 d; Life of Solon, chap. xx. (89 c). has given directions that the bride shall nibble a quince before entering the bridal chamber, in order that the first greeting may not be disagreeable nor unpleasant, even so did the Roman legislator, if there was anything abnormal or disagreeable connected with the body, keep it concealed?
65
Or is this that is done a manner of casting infamy upon unlawful amours, since even lawful love has a certain opprobrium connected with it?
66
Why is one of the hippodromes called Flaminian?