Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4)

part in Ornytus's settlement in Caria; and for this reason the

descendants of Ioxus have a family custom not to burn the asparagus plant, but to reverence and worship it.

IX. Now the wild sow of Krommyon, whom they called Phaia, was no ordinary beast, but a fierce creature and hard to conquer. This animal he turned out of his way to destroy, that it might not be thought that h...