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“What incredible wickedness in a
woman! Unheard of in the history of mankind till
she dared the sin! What unbridled and unrestrained lust, what amazing daring! One might
have thought that, even if she had no regard for the
vengeance of heaven and the opinion of man, she
would at least have dreaded that night of all nights
and those torches that lighted her to the bridal bed:
that she would have shrunk in horror from the
threshold of her chamber, from her daughter's room
and the very walls that had witnessed her former
marriage.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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