Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 5) : $b Comprising all his works collected under the title of "Morals"Plutarch
Philosophy
Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 5) : $b Comprising all his works collected under the title of "Morals"
Plutarch
Classical literature; Essays; Ethics; Philosophy
1. Who are they at Epidaurus called Κονίποδες and Ἄρτυνοι? 265. 2.
What woman did the Cumans call Onobatis? 265. 3. Who is the
Ὑπεκκαύστρια among the Solenses? 266. 4. Who
are the Ἀμνήμονες among the Cnidians, and who is the Ἀφεστήρ? 266.
5. Who were the Χρηστοί among the Arcadians and Lacedaemonians?
266. 6. Who is Κριθολόγος among the Opuntians? 266. 7. What sort of
clouds are the Ploiades? 266. 8. Who is called Platychaetas among the
Boeotians? 267. 9. Who at Delphi is called Ὁσιωτήρ? 267. 10. What is
Phyxemelum? 268. 11. Who are the Ἀποσφενδόνητοι? 268. 12. What was
Charila among the Delphians? 268. 13. What is the beggars’ meat among
the Aenianes? 270. 14. Who were the Coliads among the Ithacans? what
was a φάγιλος? 271. 15. What is the wooden dog among the Locrians?
271. 16. What thing do the Megarians call ἀφάβρωμα? 272. 17. Who was
called δορύξενος? 272. 18. What is παλιντοκία? 273. 19. What is the
Anthedon of which Pythia speaks? 273. 20. What is meant at Priene by
darkness at the Oak? 274. 21. Who in Crete were called Κατακαῦται?
274. 22. What was the Sepulchre of the Boys at Chalcedon? 275. 23.
Who at Argos are Μιξαρχαγέτας and Ἐλάσιοι? 276. 24. What at Argos
is ἔγκνισμα? 276. 25. Who are Ἀλάστωρ, Ἀλιτήριος, and Παλαμναῖος?
276. 26. What is the meaning of a verse sung by certain virgins of
Aenos? 276. 27. Why at Rhodes does the crier never enter the chapel
of Ocridion? 277. 28. Why at Tenedos does no piper enter the temple,
nor must Achilles be named there? 277. 29. Who was the πωλήτης at
Epidamnus? 278. 30. What is the shore of Araenus, in Thrace? 278.
31. Why at the feast of Ceres do the women of Eretria roast meat by
the sun? 279. 32. Who at Miletus were the Ἀειναῦται? 279. 33. Why
do the Chalcidians call a certain place Ἀκμαίων Λέσχη? 279. 34. Who
was he that sacrificed an ox to his benefactor? 280. 35. Why did the
Bottiaean maids sing, “Let us go to Athens”? 280. 36. Why do the
Eleian women in their hymns say, “O Bacchus, come with an ox foot”?
281. 37. Why is a place at Tanagra called Achilleum? 281. 38. Who
among the Boeotians were the Ψολόεις, and the Ὀλεῖαι? 282. 39. Why
do the Arcadians stone those who go willingly into the Lycaeum, &c.?
282. 40. Who is Eunostus, the hero of Tanagra, and why may not women
enter his grove? 283. 41. How came there to be a river in Boeotia
called Scamander? 284. 42. Whence the saying, “Let this prevail”?
285. 43. Why is the city of the Ithacans called Alalcomenae? 285.
44. Who are the Monophagi in Aegina? 286. 45. Why does a statue of
Jupiter in Caria carry an axe and not a thunderbolt? 286. 46. Why
do the Trallians call the pulse ὄροβος καθαρτής? 287. 47. Why do
the Eleans say, “worse than Sambicus”? 287. 48. Why is the temple
of Ulysses at Lacedaemon near the monument of Leucippides? 287. 49.
Why do the women of Chalcedon, on meeting other women’s husbands,
cover one cheek? 288. 50.
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