With crooked falk Saturn 'gainst heavens fought,Money is produced from plenty of fruit and the vent of them, therefore they make Saturn the author and preserver of their felicity. That which confirms this is that the conventions assembled every ninth day in the marketplace (which they call Nundinae) they reckon sacred to Saturn, because the abundance of fruit gave the first occasion of buying and selling. Or are these things farfetched, and was the first that contrived this Saturnine chamber of bank Valerius Publicola, upon the suppression of the kings, being persuaded it was a strong place, conspicuous, and not easily undermined by treachery?
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Question 42. Why do they use the temple of Saturn
for a chamber of public treasury, as also an office of record
for contracts?
Solution. Is not this the reason, because this saying
hath obtained credit, that there was no avarice or injustice
among men while Saturn ruled, but faith and righteousness? Or was it that this God presided over the fruits
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of the field and husbandry? For the sickle signified as
much, and not, as Antimachus was persuaded and wrote
with Hesiod,—
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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