De Conjugio (Chadwick) n. 78

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78. On adulterers and their hells

Their hells are below the buttocks, and are excrementitious. They long to emerge from them and come into the world, but in vain, because they had loved earthly and bodily things. There appeared from there as it were a belching forth and uprising, there is such striving.


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