[3] Hospitii temeratis advena sacris. The rights of hospitality were deemed so sacred among the ancients, that the violators of them were branded with heinous criminality. For this reason the poets, when they wished to give us an idea of a perfectly abandoned character, never failed to represent a violation of these rights, as one of its distinguishing parts.
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P. Ovidius Naso. The Epistles of Ovid, translated into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow; with the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical, and classical notes in English, from the very best commentators both ancient and modern; beside a very great number of notes entirely new. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. London. J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; R. Priestly, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. 1813.
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