Of Brotherly Love or Amity
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Lacedaemon, he was so exceedingly displeased, and took such indignation thereat, that he departed out of Peloponnesus and left the whole country. As for Leucothea, when her sister was dead, she nourished and brought up her child, and together with her, ranged it among the heavenly saints: whereupon the Roman dames even at this day, when they celebrate the feast of Leucothea (whom they name Matuta) carry in their arms and cherish tenderly their sisters' children, and not their own.
