Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1922
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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The famous king Numa, not knowing how to avert evil portended by thunder, and being eager to learn, by advice of Egeria concealed beside a fountain twelve chaste youths provided with chains; so that when Faunus and Martius [4279] Picus came to this place [4280] to drink,--for hither they were wont to come [4281] to draw water,--they might rush on them, seize and bind them. But, that this might be done more speedily, the king filled many [4282] cups with wine and with mead, [4283] and placed them about the approaches to the fountain, where they would be seen--a crafty snare for those wh…
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