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Rightly therefore are they reprehended by Euripides, who introduce the harp and other instruments of music at their compotations. For music ought rather to be made use of for the mitigation of wrath and to allay the sorrows of mourning, not to heighten the voluptuousness of those that are already drowned in jollity and delight. Believe yourselves then to be in an error that sleep together for pleasure, but when angry and at variance make two beds, and that never at that time call to your assistance the Goddess Venus, who better than any other knows

how to apply a proper remedy to such distempers; as Homer teaches us, where he brings in Juno using this expression:
Your deadly feuds will I myself appease,
And th amorous bed shall be the charming place
Where all your strife shall in embracing cease.
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