1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| II Maccabees 1:14 | For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the title of a dowry. | Dowry. Thus the pagans played with religion. (Menochius) --- Anthony having espoused the Minerva of Athens, required the city to give him 1000 talents for her portion. (Dion. Seneca, suasov. 1.) --- Heliogabalus and Caligula pretended to marry the celestial Venus or the moon. (Calmet) |