Why in soothsaying is _sinister_ fortunate? 245. 79. Why might the bones of one who had triumphed be brought into the city? 246. 80. Why were the consuls requested not to come to the supper of the triumpher? 246. 81. Why did not the tribune wear purple? 246. 82. Why, before the chief officers, were the axes carried bound up in rods? 247. 83. Why did the Romans forbid a human sacrifice to barbarians, and offer one themselves? 248. 84. Why does the Roman day begin at midnight? 249. 85. Why of old were women not suffered to grind or to cook? 250. 86. Why are there no marriages in May? 250. 87. Why is the hair of a bride parted with a spear? 251. 88. Why is the money for public plays called _lucar_? 251. 89. Why is the Quirinalia called the Feast of Fools? 251. 90. Why, at a sacrifice to Hercules, was no other god mentioned, &c.? 252. 91. Why might not patricians dwell about the Capitol? 252. 92. Why is a garland of oak-leaves put on him who saves a citizen in battle? 252. 93. Why are vultures used in soothsaying? 253. 94. Why is the temple of Aesculapius placed without the city? 254. 95. Why must chaste people abstain from pulse? 254. 96. Why are Vestal Virgins, when unchaste, buried alive? 254. 97. Why, at a horse-race, is the winning horse sacrificed to Mars, &c.? 255. 98. Why do the censors begin their official work by feeding the sacred geese? 255. 99. Why are augurs never deprived of office? 256. 100. Why, at the Ides of August, do the servants feast and the free-women wait on them? 257. 101. Why are boys decorated with the necklace called _bulla_? 257. 102. Why do boys receive names at nine days old, and girls at eight? 258. 103. Why are those whose fathers are not known called _Spurius_? 258. 104. Why was Bacchus called Liber Pater? 259. 105. Why are widows married on holidays, but not virgins? 259. 106. Why do the Romans worship Fortuna Primigenia? 260. 107. Whence the term _histriones_? 260. 108. Why are marriages between persons near akin not practised? 260. 109. Why must not the chief priest of Jupiter touch meal or leaven? 261. 110. Why is he forbidden to touch raw flesh? 261. 111. Why is he forbidden to touch or name dog or goat? 262. 112. Why is he forbidden to touch ivy, or to pass under vine branches? 263. 113. Why is he forbidden to bear civil office? 264. GREEK QUESTIONS. By the Same Hand.