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506 to Pseudo-Ovidius it moves in an oblique direction.

Among many other matters in dispraise of the fair sex, which are found in this application, (and which I should blush to translate!) the writer observes after Seneca, "Quòd mulieres quæ malam faciem habent, leves et impudicæ sunt." But this is a Platonic tenet. Again, "," (or ) very learnedly remarks, "Casta est quam nemo rogavit." This is no doubt the original of a song in Congreve's "Love for Love."