But as besides this opinion of great evil there is this other added also--that we ought to lament what has happened, that it is right so to do, and part of our duty, then is brought about that terrible disorder of mind, grief.

And it is to this opinion that we owe all those various and horrid kinds of lamentation, that neglect of our persons, that womanish tearing of our cheeks, that striking on our thighs, breasts, and heads.

Thus Agamemnon, in Homer and in Accius, Tears in his grief his uncomb'd locks;[42] from whence comes that pleasant saying of Bion, that the foolish king in his sorrow tore away the hairs of his head, imagining that his grief would be alleviated by baldness.

But men do all these things from being persuaded that they ought to do so.

And thus AEschines inveighs against Demosthenes for sacrificing within seven days after the death of his daughter.