Note 209 — SECOND SECTION. Influences which served to hinder to a greater or less degree the inception of Diseases consequent upon the Use or Misuse of the Genital Organs.
Reading edition
Euripides, Alcestis 98.,
πυλῶν πάροιθεν δ’οὐχ ὁρῶ πηγαῖον ὡς νομίζεται χέρνιβ’ἐπὶ φθιτῶν πύλαις, χαίτα τ’οὔτις ἐπὶ προθύροις τομαῖος, ἃ δὴ νεκύων πένθει πιτνεῖ.
(Before the doors I see no lustral water from the fountain, as is wont at the doors of the departed, and in the forecourt is no shorn hair, which is ever cut in mourning for the dead.) Comp. Kirchmann, De funeribus Rom. (On Roman Funerals) bk. I. last ch., bk. II, ch. 15. Lomeier, De veterum gentil. lustrationibus (On Public Purifications among the Ancients), ch. 16. Casaubon, On the “Characters” of Theophrastus, ch. 16.