How Kissing Began

The kiss was a very ordinary form of salutation throughout ancient times. Plutarch recalls that the conspirators, before kiiiing Caesar, kissed his face, hand and breast. Tacitus says that when Agricola, his father-in-law, returned from Rome, Domitian received him with a cold kiss, said nothing to him, and left him confounded in the crowd. The inferior who could not succeed in greeting his