talasius

Updated: May 31, 2025

But Sextius Sylla the Carthaginian, a man wanting neither learning nor ingenuity, told me Romulus gave this word as a sign when to begin the onset; everybody, therefore, who made prize of a maiden, cried out, Talasius; and for that reason the custom continues so now at marriages.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans