| Robert Lynd - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 344 pages
...and children, she was abundantly favoured by fortune; well read in the literature of Greece and Rome, able to play the lyre and dance more skilfully than an honest woman need, and having many other accomplishments which minister to voluptuousness. But there was nothing... | |
| Bruce W. Winter - Bible - 2001 - 372 pages
...the erotic poems of Ovid, as well as a discussion by Sallust, who wrote of Sempronia, a married women with children, that she was able to play the lyre and dance more skillfully than an honest woman should, and having many other accomplishments which minister to voluptuousness.... | |
| Mary Harlow, Ray Laurence - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 220 pages
...also and children, she was abundantly favoured by fortune; well read in literature of Greece and Rome, able to play the lyre and dance more skilfully than an honest woman need... But there was nothing which she held so cheap as modesty and chastity; you could not easily... | |
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