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Venus’s charm girdle

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Venus’s charm girdle
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Stable exchanged girdle whose charms are described, transferred to Juno, worn, and causally used.

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curiously embroidered girdle

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girdle wherein all my charms reside

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Venus’s curiously embroidered girdle contains love, desire, and sweet flattery that steals the judgement even of the prudent.

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the curiously embroidered girdle into which all her charms had been wrought—love, desire, and that sweet flattery which steals the judgement even of the most prudent.

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the curiously embroidered girdle into which all her charms had been wrought—love, desire, and that sweet flattery which steals the judgement even of the most prudent

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Book 14 · Passage 17

As she spoke she loosed from her bosom the curiously embroidered girdle into which all her charms had been wrought—love, desire, and that sweet flattery which steals the judgement even of the most prudent. She gave the girdle to Juno and said, ‘Take this girdle wherein all my charms reside and lay it in your bosom. If you will wear it I promise you that your errand, be it what it may, will not be bootless.’