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LIBER QVINTVS        197

                                        Odenato, multorum gravi sententia fuisse fortiorem,
                                        mulierem omnium Orientalium fœminarum nobilissimam,
                                        ac ( Cornelio Capitolino teste ) speciosissimam:
                                        de qua inferius nonnihil illustrius ostendetur.
                                        Refert etiam Vincen. in spe. histo. lib. XXX. cap.
                                        XCIII. mulieres Giorgianorum equestris ordinisMulieres Giorgianorum.
                                        ad prælium fore doctas. Refert & Herodo. lib. IIII.
                                        ad longum, Amazones arcu tela excutere, jaculari, Amazonum arma.
                                        & equitare, & muliebria opera ignorare. Præterea
                                        venatum ire equis insidentes, atque adeo in prælium
                                        cum stolis proficisci, quemadmodum viri. Sed
                                        postquam admisere virorum connubia in extrema Scythia
                                        Europæ habitantes, nulla virgo nubit, priusquam
                                        aliquem hostium interemerit. Ideoque nonnulVetulæ fiunt nullum occidentes.
                                        læ earum decedunt iam vetulæ antequam nubant,
                                        quod legi satisfacere nequeant.

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De bellis illustrium mulierum.


CAP. XXX.

                                        NON est admirationi, aut ineredulitati leviter tribuendum,
                                        Gothicas præsertim mulieres olim maxima gessisse bella, Fœminæ a cunabulis in armis educatæ.
                                        dum ab ipsis cunabulis moribus severis, & militaribus
                                        disciplinis educabantur, atque virtutis nervos non luxuria,
                                        turpitudjne, aut petulantia, sed armorum exercitiis, quasi
                                        singulo momento instrui permitterentur: vt delicatum vivendi
                                        genus adhorrentes, corpus, animumque patientia,
                                        ac labore durare valerent, totamque fœmineæ levitatis mollitiem
                                        abiicere, atque muliebre ingenium in virilem sævititiamSigna ferocitatis et agilitatis.
commutare: præcipue quarum ingenii vgor, aut corporum agilitas majoribus
signis spectatior apparebat. Hæ siquidem perinde ac nativæ conditionis immemores


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