["If a night adulterer, thou coverest thy head with a Santonic cowl."-… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

["If a night adulterer, thou coverest thy head with a Santonic cowl."--Juvenal, Sat., viii. 144.--The Santones were the people who inhabited Saintonge in France, from whom the Romans derived the use of hoods or cowls covering the head and face.]

Place: CHAPTER LVI · ¶1717
License: Public domain · Source
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