_Wherefore was there one altar common to_ Hercules _and the Muses_? MAY it not be, that for _Hercules_ taught _Evander_ the letters, according as _Juba_ writeth? Certes, in those daies it was accounted an honhourable office for men to teach their kinsefolke and friends to spell letters, and to reade. For a long time after it, and but of late daies it was, that they began to teach for hire and for money: and the first that ever was knowen to keepe a publicke schoole for reading, was one named _Spurius Carbilius_, the freed servant of that _Carbilius_ who first put away his wife. 60. _What is the reason, that there being two altars dedicated unto_ Hercules, _women are not partakers of the greater, nor tast one whit of that which is offered or sacrificed thereupon_? IS it, because as the report goes _Carmenta_ came not soone enough to be assistant unto the sacrifice: no more did the family of the _Pinarij_, whereupon they tooke that name? for in regard that they came tardie, admitted they were not to the feast with others who made good cheere; and therefore got the name _Pinarij_, as if one would say, pined or famished? Or rather it may allude unto the tale that goeth of the shirt empoisoned with the blood of _Nessus_ the Centaure, which ladie _Deianira_ gave unto _Hercules_. 61. _How commeth it to passe, that it is expresly forbidden at_ Rome, _either to name or to demaund ought as touching the Tutelar god, who hath in particular recommendation and patronage, the safetie and preservation of the citie of_ Rome: _nor so much as to enquire whether the said deitie be male or female? And verely this prohibition proceedeth from a superstitious feare that they have; for that they say that_ Valerius Soranus _died an ill death, because he presumed to utter and publish so much_. IS it in regard of a certaine reason that some latin historians do alledge; namely, that there be certaine evocations and enchantings of the gods by spels and charmes, through the power whereof they are of opinion, that they might be able to call forth and draw away the Tutelar gods of their enemies, and to cause them to come and dwell with them: and therefore the Romans be afraid lest they may do as much for them? For, like as in times past the Tyrians, as we find upon record, when their citie was besieged, enchained the images of their gods to their shrines, for feare they would abandon their citie and be gone; and as others demanded pledges and sureties that they should come againe to their place, whensoever they sent them to any bath to be washed, or let them go to any expiation to be clensed; even so the Romans thought, that to be altogether unknowen and not once named, was the best meanes, and surest way to keepe with their Tutelar god. Or rather, as _Homer_ verie well wrote: _The earth to men all, is common great and small:_