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To Carthage then

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V. St. Augustine's Confessions: 'to Carthage then I came, where a cauldron of unholy loves sang all about mine ears.' [Eliot's note] The passage from the Confessions quoted here occurs in St. Augustine's account of his youthful life of lust. Cf. line 92 and its note.

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