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But bending toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, she spoke this in the language of her fathers: “My son, have pity upon me who carried you nine months in my womb, and nursed you three years, and nourished and brought you up to this age, and sustained you.
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Verse 27. Three years. So long physicians judged it best for children to suck, till they could take solid meat. Vales. lxxxiii. Genesis 21:8. Calmet.—“Chrysippus assigns three years for the nurse.” Quint. i. 1.
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