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Diogenes wrote upon the Foot of a golden Statue which the Curtezan Phrine had erected to Venus, in the Temple of Delphos, these Words: The Incontinency of the Grecians has rais’d this Statue.
105
Diogene écrivit sur le pied d’une Statuë d’Or que la courtisane Phryné avoit presentée à Venus dans le Temple de Delphes, ces Mots: l’Incontinence des Grecs a dressé cette Statuë.
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Adrian the Emperour ask’d Epictetus why Venus was represented Naked: Because, answered he, She strips those Men of every thing who court her Pleasures too much.
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L’Empereur Adrien demandoit à Epictete pourquoi on representoit Venus toute nuë: C’est, repondit-il, parce qu’elle depouille de tous les biens ceux qui recherchent trop ses Plaisirs.
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Vespasian finding himself dying, to ridicule the silly Custom of the Heathens in those Times, (who rank’d the Emperours among the Gods, after they were dead) said, I feel I become a God.