an eudæmonist

‘Entrance into the sanctuary is allowed:

• forty days after the miscarriage of a woman, a dog, or a donkey;
• forty-one days after sexual intercourse with a virgin;
• forty-one days after a death in the family;
• seven days after washing a corpse;
• three days after entering [the house where a death has occurred?];
• three days after coming into contact with a woman in childbed;
• twenty-one days after giving birth;
• thirty days after sexual intercourse with a prostitute;
• you may enter the sanctuary after sexual intercourse only after washing yourself and performing the purification ritual.

From the unlawful things you are never clean.’⁽¹⁾

(A Greek inscription from the town of Lindos, third century AD
{LSS 91}; bracketed material indicates the reading is in doubt)