The hands of the compassionate women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Thomas Aquinas
AD 1274
Here is considered the immense hunger of mothers, who eat their own children, through an excessive hunger. As said above in Chapter 2:20: "Should women eat their offspring, the children of their tender care?"
