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Question 100. What is the reason that in the Ides of
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August (which at first they called Sextilis) all the menservants and maid-servants do feast, but the free women
make it most of their business to wash and purge their
heads?
Solution. Was it that King Servius about this day was
born of a captive maid-servant, and hence the servants have
a vacation time from work; and that rinsing the head was
a thing that took its original from a custom of the maidservants upon the account of the feast, and finally passed
also into the free women?
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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