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Oh, the incredible wickedness of the woman, and, with the exception of this one single
instance, unheard of since the world began! Oh, the unbridled and unrestrained lust! Oh, the
extraordinary audacity of her conduct! To think that she did not fear (even if she disregarded
the anger of the gods and the scorn of men) that nuptial night and those bridal torches! that
she did not dread the threshold of that chamber! nor the bed of her daughter! nor those very
walls, the witnesses of the former wedding! She broke down and overthrew everything in her
passion and her madness; lust got the better of shame, audacity subdued fear, mad passion
conquered reason.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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