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| 12 | 115 | Hunger, however, View more quotes about might">might have provided a convenient and excellent rationalization for their action. |
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| 12 | 112 | There was still food, though it seemed not much of it in the city. |
| 12 | 113 | For example, even she, a caught spy, was still being fed. |
| 12 | 114 | The women who did this, I suspected, lowering themselves naked over the wall, their bodies brushing and touching the stone in their descent, had had motivations deeper than hunger. |
| 12 | 115 | Hunger, however, might have provided a convenient and excellent rationalization for their action. |
| 12 | 116 | The nudity of the suppliants, of course, was only to be expected. |
| 12 | 117 | Stripping themselves, baring their breasts, and such, is natural for female suppliants before men. |
| 12 | 118 | The nudity, too, would make clear their intent, and make it less likely that they might, in the darkness, be slain as mere fugitives. |