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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Nvda movet lachrimas.

XXVII.

HEROD. LIB. 1.

Mulier exutâ tunicâ verecundiam pariter exuit.

Annaen. Robert. Rer. Iud. Lib. 4. Cap. 10. NVditas in viro indecens, in muliere probrosa: vnde Herodotus apud Lydos ac plerasque gentes, etiam barbaras, viris indecorum fuisse tradit se nudos ostendere, nam (vt ait Cicero) hoc solum animal natum est, pudoris & verecundiae particeps. ADDE, Flagitij principium esse, nudare inter cives corpora.

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