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‘διὰ τί τῶν γαμουμένων αἰχμῇ δορατίου τὴν κόμην διακρίνουσιν;’
ἆρα σύμβολόν ἐστι τοῦτο τοῦ βίᾳ καὶ μετὰ
πολέμου γαμηθῆναι τὰς πρώτας, ἢ μανθάνουσιν
ἀνδράσι, συνοικοῦσαι μαχίμοις καὶ πολεμικοῖς
ἄθρυπτον καὶ ἄθηλυν καὶ ἀφελῆ προσίεσθαι καλλωπισμόν; ὥσπερ ὁ Λυκοῦργος ἀπὸ πρίονος καὶ
[p. 134] πελέκεως κελεύσας τὰ θυρώματα ταῖς οἰκίαις ποιεῖν καὶ τὰς ὀροφάς,
ἄλλῳ δὲ μὴ χρῆσθαι τὸ
παράπαν ἐργαλείῳ, πᾶσαν ἐξέβαλε περιεργίαν καὶ
πολυτέλειαν.
ἢ τὴν διάστασιν αἰνίττεται τὸ γιγνόμενον, ὡς μόνῳ σιδήρῳ τοῦ γάμου διακριθησομένου;
ἢ τὰ μὲν πλεῖστα τῶν γαμικῶν εἰς τὴν Ἥραν ἀνῆπτο; Ἥρας δ᾽ ἱερὸν τὸ δόρυ νενόμισται, καὶ τῶν ἀγαλμάτων αὐτῆς δόρατι στηρίζεται τὰ πλεῖστα καὶ Κυρῖτις ἡ θεὸς ἐπωνόμασται, τὸ γὰρ
δόρυ ‘κύριν’
ἐκάλουν οἱ παλαιοί: διὸ καί φασι Κυρῖνον ὀνομασθῆναι τὸν Ἐνυάλιον.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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