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198        DE GIGANTIBUS

Arma pro amore. rigorem blanditiis anteferentes, bella pro basiis, arma pro amore, gladios pro
Tela pro fuso. deliciis elegerunt, sanguinem non oscula delibantes: manusque, quas in telas aptare
debuerant, telorum obsequiis exhibebant, vt iam non lecto, sed letho studentes,
spiculis appeterent, quos sola specie mitigare potuissent. Nec paruus earum numerus
erat, quæ se a voluptatibus abstractas, ad idem militiæ propositum promptissimas
osterebant. Neque exiguis rationibus parentes earum id fieri permittebant: vt
Pudicitia illæsa. illæsam pudicitiam ab insolentia pugilum armis defenderent, quos sceleris, & stupri
horror ab inferenda verecundia non revocaret: vtque patriam, parentes, & innocuos
malignorum violentia concuti non sinerent, quos naturæ benignitas gratissima
Sticla. munierat immunitate. Inter quas Sticla ponitur illustrissima virgo Norvegiana,
Aluilda. & Aluilda, vt superius cap. XXVII. dicebatur.
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De eisdem.

CAP. XXXI.

                                        TANTARVM igitur mulierum ingenio St fortitudine,
                                        domi forisue regna & imperia augebantur, actaque insigni
                                        strenuitate tuebantur, quemadmodum temporis progressu
Strabonis opinio.                                         primæ earum soboles, & imitatrices Amazones
                                        evidentibus gestis demonstrarunt. Strabo tamen lib. XI.
                                        plurimum a fide distare existimat, quicquid de earum magnificis
                                        gestis annosa fabulatur antiquitas, eo quod nullam
                                        Rempub. ab Amazonibus sine virorum adiutorio
Ingenia fœminarum astuta.                                         constitui posse persuadet: quasi impossibile foret naturalem
                                        furorem, astutaque ingenia fœminarum, præsertim sub
Plato. rigido cœlo genitarum, militaribus disciplinis posse indurari, & acerrima conficere
bella. Sed in ea assertione, vel persuasione, longe diversus est a Platone in VII.
Dialogo de Legibus, scribente, suo tempore innumera mulierum millia circa Pontum
militasse: quibus non equorum modo, verum etiam arcuum, cæterorumque armorum
cura, exercitatioque erat. Nec longe post de militari Amazonum fortitudine
Virgilius. memoriam facit. Accedit & Virgilius II. Aeneidos inter alia de Amazonibus
loquens:
Ducit Amazonidum lunatis agmina peltis
Penthesilea furens, mediisque in millibus ardet,
Aurea subnectens exertæ cingula mammæ
Bellatrix, audetque viris concurrere virgo.
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