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"Tell me, what else is this, cruel father, than joining dead bodies to living ones, and repeating the savage deeds of the Etruscan leader. " |
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The Etruscan leader, Mezentius, was famed for his cruelties; he would put his subjects to death by tying them face to face to corpses and leaving them to die in horror. To Alciato he was a fit emblem for the father who forced his child to marry against her will. |
