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Question 57. What is the reason that, when the women
do sacrifice to Rumina, they pour forth milk plentifully on
the sacrifices, but offer no wine?
Solution. Is it because the Latins call a breast ruma,
and that tree (as they say) is called ruminalis under which
the she-wolf drew forth her breast to Romulus? And as
we call those women that bring up children with milk
from the breast breast-women, so did Rumina—who was a
wet nurse, a dry nurse, and a rearer of children—not
permit wine, as being hurtful to the infants.
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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