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This nettle has stirred up our enemies of both sexes. Formerly its sting, produced by the vice of evil habit, was nevertheless treated with the ointments, so to speak, of wholesome exhortation.

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Haec in utroque sexu positos inimicos nostros urtica commovit, quae olim quidem vitio malae consuetudinis mordax, tamen exhortationum salutarium velut quibusdam curabatur unguentis.