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| 12 | 114 | The View more quotes about women">women who did this, I suspected, lowering themselves naked over the wall, their bodies brushing and touching the stone in their descent, had had motivations deeper than hunger. |
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| 12 | 111 | Some women, as you probably know, particularly those without money, stripped themselves and lowered themselves over the wall, surrendering to the first Cosian they met, selling themselves into slavery for so little as a crust of bread or a handful of gruel". |
| 12 | 112 | There was still food, though it seemed not much of it in the city. |
| 12 | 113 | For example, even she, a caught spy, was still being fed. |
| 12 | 114 | The women who did this, I suspected, lowering themselves naked over the wall, their bodies brushing and touching the stone in their descent, had had motivations deeper than hunger. |
| 12 | 115 | Hunger, however, might have provided a convenient and excellent rationalization for their action. |
| 12 | 116 | The nudity of the suppliants, of course, was only to be expected. |
| 12 | 117 | Stripping themselves, baring their breasts, and such, is natural for female suppliants before men. |