[Footnote 65: This controversy was likewise given for the
Proculians, to supersede the indecency of a search, and to
comply with the aphorism of Hippocrates, who was attached to
the septenary number of two weeks of years, or 700 of days,
(Institut. l. i. tit. xxii.) Plutarch and the Stoics (de
Placit. Philosoph. l. v. c. 24) assign a more natural
reason. Fourteen years is the age. See the vestigia of the
sects in Mascou, c. ix. p. 145 - 276.]