Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — [4223] These names are all in the plural in the original.
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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[4224] Lit., "you add." [4225] In the original, somewhat at large--unam potuit prolem extundere, concinnare, compingere. __________________________________________________________________ 27. But among you, is it only the males who lust; and has the female sex preserved its purity? [4226] Is it not proved in your books that Tithonus was loved by Aurora; that Luna lusted after Endymion; the Nereid after Æacus; Thetis after Achilles' father; Proserpina after Adonis; her mother, Ceres, after some rustic Jasion, and afterwards Vulcan, Phaeton, [4227] Mars; Venus herself, the mother of Æne…
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