Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck myself upon the thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Thigh, through grief. Femur moerenti plangere dextra. (Ovid, Met am. xi.) Cyrus struck his thigh, mounted his horse, and went to attend the funeral of Abradates. (Xenophon vii.) So did Achilles for Patroclus. (Homer, Iliad xvi.) Youth, being seduced by Jeroboam.

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