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1 "Virtus"—"manliness," that being esteemed by the Romans the ideal of true virtue.
2 It appears that a similar custom prevailed among the Scythians, according to Phylarchus, from whom Pliny probably took his account of it; Lemaire, vol. iii. p. 151.
3 As being fraught with an intensity of pain, which no number of days passed in pleasure can compensate.
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