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[p. 54]
‘διὰ τί ὁ πολυθρύλητος ᾁδεται Ταλάσιος
ἐν τοῖς γάμοις;’
πότερον ἀπὸ τῆς ταλασίας; καὶ γὰρ τὸν τάλαρον τάλασον ὀνομάζουσι: καὶ τὴν νύμφην εἰσάγοντες νάκος ὑποστρωννύασιν: αὐτὴ δ᾽ εἰσφέρει μὲν ἠλακάτην καὶ τὴν ἄτρακτον, ἐρίῳ δὲ τὴν θύραν περιστέφει, τοῦ ἀνδρός.
ἢ τὸ λεγόμενον
ὑπὸ τῶν ἱστορικῶν ἀληθές, ὅτι νεανίας ἦν τις λαμπρὸς ἐν τοῖς πολεμικοῖς καὶ τἄλλα χρηστὸς ὄνομα Ταλάσιος; ἐπεὶ δ᾽
ἥρπαζον
οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι τὰς τῶν Σαβίνων θυγατέρας ἐλθούσας
ἐπὶ θέαν, ἐκομίζετο τῷ Ταλασίῳ παρθένος ἐκπρεπὴς τὴν ὄψιν ὑπὸ δημοτικῶν τινων καὶ πελατῶν τοῦ Ταλασίου, βοώντων ὑπὲρ ἀσφαλείας καὶ τοῦ μηδένα πελάζειν μηδ᾽ ἀντιλαμβάνεσθαι τῆς παιδός,
ὡς Ταλασίῳ γυνὴ φέροιτο. τιμῶντες οὖν οἱ λοιποὶ τὸν Ταλάσιον καὶ συνευχόμενοι καὶ συνευφημοῦντες
εἵποντο καὶ παρέπεμπον: ὅθεν, εὐτυχοῦς γάμου
γενομένου, καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις εἰθίσθησαν ἐπιφωνεῖν
τὸν Ταλάσιον, ὥσπερ Ἕλληνες τὸν Ὑμέναιον.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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