Plutarch's Romane Questions / With dissertations on Italian cults, myths, taboos, man-worship, aryan marriage, sympathetic magic and the eating of beans

by Plutarch

Serv. ad Æn., iv. 374.

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Διὸς κῴδιον, Suidas, s.v.

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De Witte, Descr. des Antiq. de l'Hôtel Lambert, p. 68, pl. 22 (reproduced in Daremberg et Saglio, Dict., s.v., and in Duruy, Hist. des Grecs, i. 786). The right interpretation of this scene was first given by Lenormant, Contemporary Review, 1880, p. 137.

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The Roman, at this crisis of his personal history, placed himself under the protection of a series of Di Indigetes, e.g., Subigus, Prema, Pertunda (S. August., C. D., vi. 9).

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The Latin phrase is "Aqua et igni accipi." The custom is testified to by Dion. Hal., ii. 30; Varro, L. L., v. 61; Serv. ad Æn., iv. 167; Ov., F., iv. 787; Fest. s.v. Scæv., Dig., 24. 1. 66; Stat., Silv. I. ii. 3; Val. Fl., Argon., viii. 244.

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