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An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

Note 77 — II. THE ANTE-NICENE CHURCH.

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Thus Tibullus (Lib. I. El. I.)—

“Vos quoque abesse procul jubeo, discedite ab aris, Queis tulit hesterna gaudia nocte Venus. Casta placent Superis.”

Cf. Juvenal, VI. 534-5.—Ælii Lamprid. Alex. Sever. XXIX.—Porphyr. de Abstinent. II. 50; IV. 6, 7.—Arriani de Epictet. Disertt. Lib. III. c. xxi.—I. Cor. vii. 5.

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