39. He declares that the peculiar vices of each country were
collected in the sink of Carthage (1. vii. p. 257). In the
indulgence of vice the Africans applauded their manly
virtue. Et illi se magis virilis fortitudinis esse
crederent, qui maxime viros feminei usus probrositate
fregissent (p. 268). The streets of Carthage were polluted
by effeminate wretches, who publicly assumed the
countenance, the dress, and the character, of women (p.
264). If a monk appeared in the city, the holy man was
pursued with impious scorn and ridicule; detestantibus
ridentium cachinnis (p. 289).