LONGINUS.

Is it any where said that we must believe your old prophets (with

whom your memory seems overburdened) to be more perfect than our

gods?

PATHOCLUS. You must be very cunning to maintain impossibilities.

Now listen to me: Is it possible that a virgin can bring forth a

child without ceasing to be a virgin?

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