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Ad res Venerias intemperantior traditur; nam speculato cubiculo scorta dicitur habuisse disposita, ut quocumque respexisset ibi ei ibi ei M: sibi Oudendorp imago coitus referretur. Ad…referretur om. Dacier
He is reported to have been quite unrestrained in matters of love; for it is said that he had prostitutes arranged in a mirrored bedroom, so that whichever way he looked, he saw a reflection of sexual intercourse.
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