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Plutarch, Roman Questions, 267d

nan Why is it that it is forbidden to slave-women to set foot in the shrine of Matuta, and why do the women bring in one slave-woman only and slap her on the head and beat her? Is the beating of this slave but a symbol of the prohibition, and do they prevent the others from entering because of the legend? For Ino is said to have become madly jealous of a slave-woman on her husband's account, and to have vented her madness on her son. The Greeks relate that the slave was an Aetolian by birth and that her name was Antiphera. Wherefore also in my native town, Chaeroneia, the temple-guardian stands before the precinct of Leucothea and, taking a whip in his hand, makes proclamation: "Let no slave enter, nor any Aetolian, man or woman!

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aetolia,aetolian	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
architecture,chaeronea	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
archon,archonship	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
chaeronea	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
cult	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
delphi	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
dionysus	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
festival,agrionia	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
festival,chaeronean	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
festival,dionysia	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
identify,identifying	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
local knowledge	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
mater matuta	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
pausanias,periegete	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
religion	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
ritual	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
rome,city	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
sacrifice	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
senecio,q. sosius	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
slave,slavery	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
soclarus,l. mestrius	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33
statue,dionysus'	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 33