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Question 88. Why do they call the money that is laid
out upon the public plays lucar?
Solution. Is it because there are many groves consecrated to the Gods about the city, which they call luci, and
the revenue of these they expend upon the said plays?
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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