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Heracles! what alarming power in a kiss! cried Xenophon.
What? Does that surprise you? continued Socrates. Don’t you know that the scorpion, though smaller than a farthing, if it but fasten on the tongue, inflicts excruciating and maddening pain?
Yes, to be sure; for the scorpion injects something by its bite.
Heracles! what alarming power in a kiss! cried Xenophon.
What? Does that surprise you? continued Socrates. Don’t you know that the scorpion, though smaller than a farthing, if it but fasten on the tongue, inflicts excruciating and maddening pain?
Yes, to be sure; for the scorpion injects something by its bite.
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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