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ch. 78
2.78.1
After rich men's repasts, a man carries around an image in a coffin, painted and carved in exact imitation of a corpse two or four feet long. This he shows to each of the company, saying “While you drink and enjoy, look on this; for to this state you must come when you die.” Such is the custom at their symposia.
ch. 79
2.79.1
They keep the customs of their fathers, adding none to them. Among other notable customs of theirs is this, that they have one song, the Linus-song, note
ch. 80
2.80.1
There is a custom, too, which no
ch. 81
2.81.1
They wear linen tunics with fringes hanging about the legs, called “calasiris,” and loose white woolen mantles over these. But nothing woolen is brought into temples, or buried with them: that is impious.
2.81.2
They agree in this with practices called Orphic and Bacchic, but in fact
ch. 82
2.82.1
Other things originating with the
ch. 83
2.83.1
As to the art of divination among them, it belongs to no man, but to some of the gods; there are in their country oracles of
ch. 84
2.84.1
The practice of medicine is so specialized among them that each physician is a healer of one disease and no more. All the country is full of physicians, some of the eye, some of the teeth, some of what pertains to the belly, and some of internal diseases.
ch. 85 2.85.1 They mourn and bury the dead like this: whenever a man of note is lost to his house by death, all the women of the house daub their faces or heads with mud; then they leave the corpse in the house and roam about the city lamenting, with their garments girt around them and their breasts showing, and with them all the women of their relatives;
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