Plutarch's Romane Questions. Translated A.D. 1603 by Philemon Holland, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Now again edited by Frank Byron Jebons, M.A., Classical Tutor to the University of Durham With Dissertations on Italian Cults, Myths, Taboos, Man- Worship, Aryan Marriage Sympathetic Magic and the Eating of Beans On the whole, with the proper qualifications, Plutarch's _Romane Questions_ may fairly be said to be the earliest formal treatise written on the subject of folk-lore. The problems which Plutarch proposes for solution are mainly such as the modern science of folk-lore undertakes to solve; and though Plutarch was not the first to propound them, he was the first to make a…
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