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Finally, Aristotle wrote in his volume of Problems The marching of the cowards, because of their fear, would not be in time with the music. that the custom of the Lacedaemonians which I have mentioned, of entering battle to the music of pipers, was adopted in order to make the fearlessness and ardour of the soldiers more evident and indubitable. For, said he, distrust and fear are not at all consistent with an advance of that kind, and such an intrepid and rhythmical advance cannot be made by the faint-hearted and despondent. I have added a few of Aristotle's own words on the subject: Why, when on the point of encountering danger, did they advance to music of the pipe? In order to detect the cowards by their failure to keep time. * * * Some comment on the quotation should follow. Hertz indicated a lacuna.
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AT what age, from what kind of family, by what rites, ceremonies and observances, and under what title a Vestal virgin is taken by the chief pontiff; what legal privileges she has immediately upon being chosen; also that, according to Labeo, she is lawfully neither heir of an intestate person, nor is anyone her heir, in case she dies without a will.
