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  1. Feb 2014
    1. “We think,” they say, “that it is unjust to carry women off. But to be anxious to avenge rape is foolish: wise men take no notice of such things. For plainly the women would never have been carried away, had they not wanted it themselves.

      Hdt. 1.4 Persian opinion of carrying women off and avenging rape.