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Question 59. Why was one altar common to Hercules
and the Muses?
Solution. Was it because Hercules taught letters first to
Evander's people, as Juba tells us? And it was esteemed an
honorable action of those that taught their friends and relations; for it was but of late that they began to teach for hire.
The first that opened a grammar school was Spurius Carbilius, a freeman of Carbilius, the first that divorced his wife.
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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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