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Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
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Verse 19. Thigh, through grief. Femur mœrenti plangere dextrâ. Metam. xi.—Cyrus struck his thigh, mounted his horse, and went to attend the funeral of Abradates. Xen. vii.—So did Achilles for Patroclus. Il. xvi.—Youth, being seduced by Jeroboam.
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