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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 19 — Chapter IV · MARRIAGE CEREMONIES.

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Deipnosophist. xiii. 56. Muretus, Var. Lect. vii. i. discusses the question, but without throwing much new light upon it.—Andocides cont. Alcibiad. § 9, assigns Cimon’s amour with Elpinice as the cause of his banishment. We find, however, Archeptolis, son of Themistocles, marrying his half-sister Mnesiptolema. Plut. Themistocl. § 32.

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