Note 175 — SERMON XXVI. PREACHED FEBRUARY 21, 1773.
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It was the easier to do this, as the Heathens had their Minerva and Diana, as well as grosser deities; and their vestal virgins too; though, I doubt, in less numbers than the shameless votaries of the Corinthian Venus. See Strabo, L. viii. p. 378. Par. 1620.