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Hieronymus in his Letter to Demetriades CXXX, 19 (
Vallarsius p. 995): Boys with hair curled and crimped and skins smelling like foreign musk-rats, about whom Arbiter wrote the line,
To smell good always is not to smell good,
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showing how the virgin may avoid certain plagues and poisons of modesty.phi0972.phi001f. Petronius. Michael Heseltine (Editor). London. 1913.
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