[247] _Philo Judaeus_, De special. legg., τοσαύτην δ’ ἔχει πρόνοιαν ὁ νόμος τοῦ μηδ’ ἐπὶ γάμοις νεωτερίζεσθαι, ὥστε καὶ τοὺς συνιόντας εἰς ὁμιλίαν ἄνδρας καὶ γυναῖκας κατὰ τοὺς ἐπὶ γάμοις θεσμοὺς, ὅταν εὐνῆς ἀπαλλάττωντο, οὐ πρότερον ἐᾷ τινος ψαύειν ἢ _λουτροῖς_ καὶ _περιῤῥαντηρίοις χρῆσθαι_. (But the Law takes such precautions that nothing strange and unlawful be done in marriage, that it suffers not even such as come together in intercourse, men and women united according to the laws of marriage, when they quit the bed, to touch anything before they have _employed baths and sprinklings_.) The same Writer, De mercede meretricis non accepienda in sacrar., (Of Harlots’ Hire not meet to be Taken in the Holy Place), Works edit. Mangey Vol. II. p. 265., moreover states that in his time the public women made frequent use of warm baths. [248] _Europa_ bathed in Crete after coition with Zeus (Antigonus Carystius, Hist. mirab. 179.), Venus after the first embraces of Vulcan (Athenaeus, Deipnos. XV. p. 681.), Ceres after lying with Neptune (Pausanias, Arcad. p. 256.). [249] In Amor. 42. Lucian says of the women (Hetaerae), νύκτας ἐπὶ τούτοις διηγούμεναι, καὶ τοὺς ἑτερόχρωτας ὕπνους καὶ θηλύττητος εὐνὴν γέμουσαν· _ἀφ’ ἧς ἀναστὰς ἕκαστος εὐθὺ λουτροῦ χρεῖός ἐστι_. (passing their nights in this way, enjoying indiscrimate sleep and a couch teeming with wantonness; from the which each man when he has risen, straightway is in need of bathing). _Hesiod_, Works and Days 731., writes, μηδ’ αἰδοῖα γονῇ πεπαλαγμένος ἔνδοθι οἴκου ἑστίη ἐμπελαδὸν παραφαινέμεν, ἀλλ’ ἀλέασθαι. (Nor yet when done with generation, within the house hard by the hearth expose the privates, but retire aside). [250] _Persius_, Sat. II. 15., Haec sancte ut poscas, Tiberino in gurgite mergis Mane caput bis terque et _noctem flumine purgas_. (That you may make this request free from taint, you plunge your head in Tiber’s flood twice and three times at dawn, and _purge away your night in the stream_). _Gregory the Great_, Answers to ten Questions of Augustine, first English Bishop: Vir cum propria uxore dormiens, intrare ecclesiam, non debet, sed neque lotus intrare statim debet.... Et quamvis de hac re diversae hominum nationes diversa sentiant, atque custodire videantur, _Romanorum tamen semper atque ab antiquioribus_ usus fuit, post ad mixtionem propriae coniugis et lavacrii purificationem ab ingressu ecclesiae paullatim reverenter abstinere. (A man sleeping with his own wife, ought not to enter a church, and not even when washed ought he to enter immediately after.... And although on this matter different nations of mankind hold different opinions and appear to keep different customs, yet the Romans’ practice always and from the most ancient times has ever been, that subsequently to intercourse with his lawful wife and the purification of the bath a man reverently abstain for a while from entering a church). For the same reason _Tibullus_ says, Carmina bk. II. 1.,