According to Orthodox Jews too there are variations in Jewish custom from one part of the world to another.

According to Diskin Clay, Epicurus himself established a custom of celebrating his birthday annually with common meals, befitting his stature as hero ctistes ( or founding hero ) of the Garden.

According to Hume these beliefs were to be accepted nonetheless because of their profound basis in instinct and custom.

According to Strabo their territory was divided in accordance with custom, each tribe was further divided into cantons, each governed by a military aristocratic ruler whose title chief of the tribe gave him the powers of a King-Priest (' tetrarch ').

According to scholar Alan Dundes, who wrote extensively on the topic, the custom originated among Romani Gypsies in Wales ( Welsh Kale Gypsies ) and England ( English Romanichal Gypsies ).

According to Frankish custom, Louis had expected to share his inheritance with his brothers, Charles the Younger, King of Neustria, and Pepin, King of Italy.

According to Slavonic custom, a father was expected to divide his legacy among all his sons.

According to current Swazi law and custom, the monarch holds supreme executive, legislative, and judicial powers.

According to Jan Michiel Otto, Professor of Law and Governance in Developing Countries at Leiden University, " Anthropological research shows that people in local communities often do not distinguish clearly whether and to what extent their norms and practices are based on local tradition, tribal custom, or religion.

According to custom, all free Norse men were required to own weapons, as well as permitted to carry them all the time.

According to Strauss the beginning of philosophy involved the " discovery or invention of nature " and the " pre-philosophical equivalent of nature " was supplied by " such notions as ' custom ' or ' ways, which appear to be really universal in all times and places.

According to custom, the verses would have been passed from person to person and often copied.

According to custom, he was named after the patron saint of the church.

According to custom, the young bride would continue to live with her parents until her husband started earning and could establish their household.

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, the etymology of the word can be traced back to the Old English word hlāford which originated from hlāfweard meaning ' bread keeper ' or ' loaf-ward ', reflecting the Germanic tribal custom of a chieftain providing food for his followers.

According to custom, the mistletoe must not touch the ground between its cutting and its removal as the last of Christmas greens at Candlemas ; it may remain hanging through the year, often to preserve the house from lightning or fire, until it is replaced the following Christmas Eve.

According to ancient Christmas custom, a man and a woman who meet under a hanging of mistletoe were obliged to kiss.

According to an interview with Bernard's trainer Bouie Fisher, prior to the fight members of Hopkins ' team visited the Trinidad dressing room in what is considered a normal boxing custom to watch the taping of Trinidad's hands before his gloves were placed on.

According to Worcester, it was " very much the custom with Gov.

According to Japanese custom, the solid ingredients are chosen to reflect the seasons and to provide contrasts of color, texture, and flavor.

According to the custom of the time, the continuator did not hesitate to interpolate Fordun's portion of the work, with additions of his own, and the whole history thus compiled is known as the Scotichronicon.

According to the custom of wealthy families of the time, after receiving basic instruction at home with private instructors including his parents, young Alberto was sent out alone to larger cities to do his secondary studies.

According to Burmese custom a person's age is their age upon their next birthday.

According to Singer, Aquinas held that conscience, or conscientia was an imperfect process of judgment applied to activity because knowledge of the natural law ( and all acts of natural virtue implicit therein ) was obscured in most people by education and custom that promoted selfishness rather than fellow-feeling ( Summa Theologiae, I – II, I ).

According to an OSCE survey, a typical Armenian migrant worker is a married man aged between 41 and 50 years who " began looking for work abroad at the age of 32-33.

According to some accounts, Hippotes married the same Melanippe who was the mother of Arne.

According to Christian Tradition and Canon Law, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria only ordains men to the priesthood and episcopate, and if they wish to be married, they must be married before they are ordained.

According to Gregory of Tours, Charibert was king when he married Ingoberg, Bertha ’ s mother, which places that marriage no earlier than 561.

According to Nihon Shoki, Ohohoto no Kimi, the great-grandfather of Emperor Keitai, married into the Okinaga clan.

According to the Book of Hosea, he married the prostitute Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, at God's command.

According to Paul VI, married love takes its origin from God, who " is love ", and from this basic dignity, he defines his position:

According to some Hindu mythological accounts, the god Krishna obtained the Syamantaka from Jambavanta, whose daughter Jambavati later married Krishna.

According to Livy, the younger of the two daughters of Servius Tullius was of fiercer temperament than her sister, yet she originally married Aruns, who had a milder disposition than his elder brother.

According to Gallus Anonymus, before becoming a Christian Mieszko had seven pagan wives, whom he had to get rid of as he married Dobrawa.

According to one hypothesis there was another daughter of Mieszko, married to a Pomeranian Slavic Prince ; she could be a daughter of Dobrawa or of one of the previous pagan wives.

According to the former, he married a Greek princess, Damodice daughter of Agamemnon of Cyme, Aeolia, and traded extensively with the Greeks.

According to his " Secretum ", she refused him for the very proper reason that she was already married to another man.

According to Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, in his retelling of the Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna, she is married to Ægir and they have nine daughters together.

According to a Tibetan legendary tradition, Songtsän Gampo also married a Nepalese Buddhist princess, Bhrikuti.

According to the Quran, a married Muslim couple, both husband and wife act as each other ’ s protector and comforter and are therefore only meant " for one another ".

According to an article by Judith Treas and Deirdre Giesen, cohabiting couples are twice as likely to experience infidelity within the relationship than married couples.

According to Nikolai Baumgarten, Vladimir was married to the daughter of count Loepold of Staden, Ode.

According to this record, Ong Sum Ping didn't become Sultan, but his daughter was married to the Sultan, and he became the Sultan's father-in-law.

According to tradition they married under Brehon law ' for one year certain ', and it is said that when the year was up Gráinne divorced Risdeárd and kept the castle.

According to Pseudo-Plutarch, Demosthenes was married once.

According to legend, he married Aslaug and became the son-in-law of Sigurd the Völsung.

According to genealogical research, Birgitta Gustafsdotter and Sten Sture ( and consequently also Gustav Vasa ) were descended from King Sverker II of Sweden, through King Sverker's granddaughter Benedikte Sunesdotter ( who was married to Svantepolk Knutsson, son of Duke of Reval ).

According to it, in 231 AM Seth married his sister, Azura, who was four years younger than he was.