Sed tamen effeminatior multitudo Cypriorum, qui reginas suas mulierum corporibus velut gradibus constructis, quo mollius vestigia pedum ponerent, currus conscendere aequo animo sustinebant: viris enim, si modo viri erant, vita carere quam tam delicato imperio obtemperare satius fuit.
More effeminate, however, was the multitude of the Cypriots, who calmly tolerated that their queens should mount chariots on the bodies of women piled up like steps, so that they should place their footsteps more softly. As for the men, if men they were, it would have been better for them to lose life rather than obey so luxurious a regime.
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