Plutarch's Romane Questions · Plutarch
60.
_What is the reason, that there being two altars dedicated unto_ Hercules, _women are not partakers of the greater, nor tast one whit of that which is offered or sacrificed thereupon_? IS it, because as the report goes _Carmenta_ came not soone enough to be assistant unto the sacrifice: no more did the family of the _Pinarij_, whereupon they tooke that name? for in regard that they came tardie, admitted they were not to the feast with others who made good cheere; and therefore got the name _Pinarij_, as if one would say, pined or famished? Or rather it may allude unto the tale that goeth of the shirt empoisoned with the blood of _Nessus_ the Centaure, which ladie _Deianira_ gave unto _Hercules_.
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