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are usually characteristic of the male sex : but this sexual 

 diversity does not take place in earlier life ; for a beautiful 

 youth shall be so like a beautiful girl that the difference 

 shall not be discernible ; 



" Quern si puellarum insereres chore, 

 Mir& sagaces falleret hospites 

 Discrimen obscurum, solutis 

 Crinibus, ambiguoque vultu." HOR. 



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