Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1931
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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6. Now, when it had been often considered in the councils of the gods, by what means it might be possible either to weaken or to curb his audacity, Liber, the rest hanging back, takes upon himself this task. With the strongest wine he drugs a spring much resorted to by Acdestis [4308] where he had been wont to assuage the heat and burning thirst [4309] roused in him by sport and hunting. Hither runs Acdestis to drink when he felt the need; [4310] he gulps down the draught too greedily into his gaping veins. Overcome by what he is quite unaccustomed to, he is in consequence sent fast as…
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