Balder the Beautiful Vol I 8 1
Balder the Beautiful Vol I 8 1
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590, _sqq. _ [345] Philostiatus, _Heroica_, xx. 24.
[346] Ovid, _Fasti_, iii. 143 _sq. _; Macrobius, _Saturn_, i. 12. 6.
[347] Festus, ed. C. O. Müller (Leipsic, 1839), p. 106, _s. V. _ "Ignis. "Plutarch describes a method of rekindling the sacred fire by means ofthe sun's rays reflected from a hollow mirror (_Numa_, 9); but he seemsto be referring to a Greek rather than to the Roman custom. The rule ofcelibacy imposed on the Vestals, whose duty it was to relight the sacredfire as well as to pr...eserve it when it was once made, is perhapsexplained by a superstition current among French peasants that if a girlcan blow up a smouldering candle into a flame she is a virgin, but thatif she fails to do so, she is not. See Jules Lecoeur, _Esquisses duBocage Normand_ (Condé-sur-Noireau, 1883-1887), ii. 27; B. Souché, _Croyances, Présages et Traditions diverses_ (Niort, 1880), p. 12. Atleast it seems more likely that the rule sprang from a superstition ofthis sort than from a simple calculation of expediency, as I formerlysuggested (_Journal of Philology_, xiv.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
590, _sqq. _ [345] Philostiatus, _Heroica_, xx. 24.
[346] Ovid, _Fasti_, iii. 143 _sq. _; Macrobius, _Saturn_, i. 12. 6.
[347] Festus, ed. C. O. Müller (Leipsic, 1839), p. 106, _s. V. _ "Ignis. "Plutarch describes a method of rekindling the sacred fire by means ofthe sun's rays reflected from a hollow mirror (_Numa_, 9); but he seemsto be referring to a Greek rather than to the Roman custom. The rule ofcelibacy imposed on the Vestals, whose duty it was to relight the sacredfire as well as to pr...eserve it when it was once made, is perhapsexplained by a superstition current among French peasants that if a girlcan blow up a smouldering candle into a flame she is a virgin, but thatif she fails to do so, she is not. See Jules Lecoeur, _Esquisses duBocage Normand_ (Condé-sur-Noireau, 1883-1887), ii. 27; B. Souché, _Croyances, Présages et Traditions diverses_ (Niort, 1880), p. 12. Atleast it seems more likely that the rule sprang from a superstition ofthis sort than from a simple calculation of expediency, as I formerlysuggested (_Journal of Philology_, xiv.
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