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mour is his humanity. The envious men are Jews, who put him to death.
TALE LV.
OF CONSCIENCE.
Augustine relates, in his work "De Civitate Dei" that Lucretia, a noble Roman lady, was the wife of Calatinus[1]. The latter invited to his castle, Sextus, the son of the emperor Tarquinius, who became violently enamoured of his wife. Selecting a seasonable opportunity, when both Calatinus and the emperor had departed from Rome, he returned to the above mentioned castle, and slept there. During the night, not as a friend but foe, he se-
- ↑ Meaning Collatinus. She was the wife of Tarquinius Collatinus.
