De Conjugio (Chadwick) n. 11

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11. Those, however, who live further down in the western region are similar and even more numerous. They are the unmarried women who have given themselves up to prostitution, and spent their whole lives in that trade. There is a similar smell of mice there, but it is not so rank; they too appear like mice, but smaller ones. The caverns where they are seem to run in rings beneath the ground, one cavern below the other. There is a vast number there.


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