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Question 32. Why do they that throw the effigies of
men from a wooden bridge into the river, in the month
of May, about the full moon, call those images Argives?
Solution. Was it that the barbarians that of old inhabited about that place did in this manner destroy the
Grecians which they took? Or did their so much admired Hercules reform their practice of killing strangers,
and teach them this custom of representing their devilish practice by casting in of images? The ancients have
usually called all Grecians Argives. Or else it may be
that, since the Arcadians esteemed the Argives open enemies by reason of neighborhood, they that belonged to
Evander, flying from Greece and taking up their situation
in Italy, kept up that malignity and enmity.
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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