Note 1043 — Chapter I · THE NEGATIVE CULT AND ITS FUNCTIONS THE ASCETIC RITES
Joseph Ward Swain translation
Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 674. Perhaps the rule against talking during the great religious solemnities is due to the same cause. Men speak, and especially in a high voice, during ordinary life; then, in the religious life they ought to keep still or talk in a low voice. This same consideration is not foreign to the alimentary interdictions (see above, p. 128).