An Enquirie into the Causes of Manie Fashions and Customes of Rome. A Treatise fit for them who are conversant in the reading of Romane histories and antiquities, giving a light to many places otherwise obscure and hard to be understood. Translated A.D. 1603 by Philemon Holland, M.A. (1552-1637), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. With Dissertations on Italian Cults, Myths, Taboos, Man-Worship, Aryan Marriage Sympathetic Magic and the Eating of Beans. This edition published in 1892 was edited and with an introduction by Frank Byron Jevons, M.A. (1858-1936), Classical Tutor to the University of Durham. Plutarch (c. CE 46 - CE 120) was a Greek biographer and essayist who became a Roman citizen. His surviving works were written in Greek but intended for both Greek and Roman readers. This work forms part of Book IV of his Moralia.