Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, ed. William W. Goodwin, 88

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Question 88.

Why do they call the money that is laid out upon the public plays lucar?

Solution. Is it because there are many groves consecrated to the Gods about the city, which they call luci, and the revenue of these they expend upon the said plays?

Quaestiones Romanae. Plutarch. ed. William W. Goodwin. Boston. 1874.

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Roman Questions (English) (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. II. Goodwin, William W., editor; Chauncy, Isaac translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.)

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Αἴτια Ῥωμαϊκά Perseus (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. IV. Babbitt, Frank Cole, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936 (printing).) — 88 focus

[88] διὰ τί τὸ τελούμενον εἰς θέας Λοῦκαρ καλοῦσιν;

ἢ ὅτι πολλὰ ἔστιν ἄλση ¹ περὶ τὴν πόλιν ἀνειμένα θεοῖς, ἃ καλοῦσι λούκους, καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ τούτων πρόσοδον εἰς τὰς θέας ἀνήλισκον;

Κεφαλαίων καταγραφή Ῥωμαϊκά Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol IΙ. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1889.) — 88 focus

[88] διὰ τί τὸ τελούμενον εἰς θέας ¹ Λοῦκαρ καλοῦσιν; ἦ ὅτι πολλὰ ἔστιν ἄλση ² περὶ τὴν πόλιν ἀνειμένα θεοῖς, ἃ καλοῦσι λούκους, καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ τούτων πρόσοδον εἰς τὰς θέας ³ ἀνήλισκον; 5

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The Roman Questions Perseus (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. IV. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936 (printing).) — 88 focus

[88] Why do they call the money expended upon public spectacles Lucar?

Is it because round about the city there are, consecrated to gods, many groves which they call luci, and they used to spend the revenue from these on the public spectacles?

Plutarch Quaestiones Romanae 88

ed. William W. Goodwin

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