De Conjugio (Chadwick) n. 63

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63. On those who treacherously attack conjugial love

I heard from such people many tricks and secret devices by which to entice chaste wives into adultery. I saw more devices than in the world - men making bids for their favour, and of the husband, flattering both and particularly the husband; men putting on a show of intimate friendship, finding out the wife's desires and wishes, whether she expresses them openly or against her will, besides a thousand other things. But such men are sent not long after death to a hell situated under the rear part of the province of the knee; there they sink deep down and are entirely shut in, so that there is not even any hole by which they can see out of their person; for they are a danger to conjugial love, which is most holy. They are there set to work; they have prostitutes in place of wives.


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