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‘διὰ τί, τῶν ἄλλων Ῥωμαίων ἐν τῷ Φεβρουαρίῳ μηνὶ ποιουμένων χοὰς καὶ
ἐναγισμοὺς τοῖς [p. 272] τεθνηκόσι, Δέκιμος Βροῦτος, ὡς
Κικέρων 1 ἱστόρηκεν, ἐν τῷ
Δεκεμβρίῳ τοῦτ᾽ ἔπραττεν ἦν δ᾽ οὗτος ὁ Λυσιτάνειαν ἐπελθὼν καὶ
πρῶτος ἐπέκεινα στρατῷ διαβὰς τὸν τῆς: λήθης ποταμόν;᾽’ πότερον,
ὥσπερ ἡμέρας ληγούσης καὶ μηνὸς φθίνοντος
εἰώθασιν ἐναγίζειν οἱ πολλοί, λόγον ἔχει καὶ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ
καταστρέφοντος ἐν τῷ τελευταίῳ μηνὶ τιμᾶν τοὺς τεθνηκότας ἔστι δὲ τῶν
μηνῶν τελευταῖος ὁ Δεκέμβριος:᾿: ἢ χθονίων μὲν αἱ τιμαὶ θεῶν, τιμᾶν δὲ
τοὺς χθονίους ὡραῖόν ἐστι, τῶν καρπῶν
ἁπάντων εἰληφότων
συντέλειαν; ἢ ὅτε κινοῦσι τὴν γῆν ἀρχόμενοι σπόρου, μεμνῆσθαι μάλιστα
τῶν κάτω προσήκει; ἢ Κρόνῳ μὲν οὗτος ὁ μὴν ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων καθιέρωται,
Κρόνον δὲ τῶν κάτω θεῶν οὐ τῶν ἄνω νομίζουσιν; ἢ μεγίστης αὐτοῖς ἑορτῆς τῶν Κρονίων καθεστώσης καὶ
συνουσίας τε πλείστας καὶ ἀπολαύσεις ἔχειν δοκούσης, ἔδοξε καὶ ταύτης
ἀπονέμειν τινὰς ἀπαρχὰς τοῖς τεθνηκόσιν; ἢ τοῦτο, 2 μόνον Βροῦτον ἐναγίζειν ἐν τῷ μηνὶ τούτῳ,
καθόλου ψεῦδός ἐστι; καὶ γὰρ τῇ Λαρεντίᾳ
ποιοῦσι τὸν ἐναγισμὸν καὶ χοὰς ἐπιφέρουσιν ἐπὶ τὸν τάφον τοῦ
Δεκεμβρίου μηνός
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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