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Chastity Agnes, St. virgin saint and martyr. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewster, 76] (Rom. Diana) moon goddess; virgin huntress. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 36] goddess; so chaste no one but husband sees her after marriage. [Rom. Myth.: Zimmerman, 43] embodiment of purity. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene] proves innocence by rescuing goddess’ ship. [Rom. Myth.: Hall, 70] proves innocence by walking unharmed on hot ploughshares. [Christian Hagiog.: Hall, 86] remained chaste despite the temptations offered him each night by his hostess. [Br. Lit.: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Benét, 934] resisted the advances of Potiphar’s wife. [O.T.: Gen. 39] emblem of sexual purity. [Gem Symbolism: Kunz, 370] by clearness or opacity shows woman’s purity. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights, “The Tale of Zayn Alasnam” ] symbolic of chastity when used in wedding ceremonies. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 176] in Middle Ages, attribute of chastity personified. [Art: Hall, 246] emblem of sexual purity. [Gem Symbolism: Kunz, 370] symbol of sexual purity. [Animal Symbolism: Mercatante, 21] capturable only by virgins; thus, a test of chastity. [Christian Symbolism: Appleton, 105] Venus invoked to make women pure once more. [Rom. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 1126] |
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| Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many almost a vice. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do, if she find him jealous. And whoever reads the life of Cyrus, written by Xenophon, will recognize afterwards in the life of Scipio how that imitation was his glory, and how in chastity, affability, humanity, and liberality Scipio conformed to those things which have been written of Cyrus by Xenophon. |
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