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Jdg_16:8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Ver. 8. And she bound him with them.] So heathen histories tell us of Hercules, that he was miserably enslaved and abused by his mistress, Omphale Queen of Lydia. Amantes amentes. How was Antony befooled by Cleopatra, {a} and the Persian kings by their concubines, being captivarum suarum captivi! they commanded the whole world, but were commanded by those minions.
{a} Plutarch.