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Question 95. Why was it ordained that they that were
to live chaste should abstain from pulse?
Solution. Did they, like the Pythagoreans, abominate
beans for the causes which are alleged, and the lathyrus
and erebinthus as being named from Lethe and Erebus?
Or was it because they used pulse for the most part in
their funeral feasts and invocations of the dead? Or rather
was it because they should bring empty and slender bodies
to their purifications and expiations? For pulse are windy,
and cause a great deal of excrements that require purging
off. Or is it because they irritate lechery, by reason of
their flatulent and windy nature?
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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