1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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II Samuel 13:19 And she put ashes on her head, and rent her long robe, and laid her hands upon her head, and went on crying.

Head, as if to hide her face, Ezechiel 27:30., and Jeremias 2:37. So Mezentius: "Canitiem immundo deformat pulvere et ambas Ad Coelum tendit palmas."----- (Virgil, Aeneid x.) See Homer, Iliad 2. (Calmet) --- Crying, that no one might think she had consented. (Menochius) --- She probably went directly to her brother's house, and related the affair to him; or he met her in this condition. (Salien)