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Now the young men were induced by the fondness they had for these
women to think they spake very well; so they gave themselves up to what
they persuaded them, and transgressed their own laws, and supposing there
were many gods, and resolving that they would sacrifice to them according
to the laws of that country which ordained them, they both were delighted
with their strange food, and went on to do every thing that the women would
have them do, though in contradiction to their own laws; so far indeed
that this transgression was already gone through the whole army of the
young men, and they fell into a sedition that was much worse than the former,
and into danger of the entire abolition of their own institutions; for
when once the youth had tasted of these strange customs, they went with
insatiable inclinations into them; and even where some of the principal
men were illustrious on account of the virtues of their fathers, they also
were corrupted together with the rest.
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