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Plutarch's Morals

Note 53 — Front matter

A. R. (Arthur Richard) Shilleto translation

All that is said here about the milk, the menses, and the blood, I have been obliged somewhat to condense and paraphrase. The ancients sometimes speak more plainly than we can. Ever and anon one must pare down a phrase or word in translating an ancient author. It is inevitable. Verbum sat sapienti.

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