"Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure."

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Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1869). “History of European morals: from Augustus to Charlemagne. II”, p.23

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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