An outlandish delegate sustained against both these views with such heat as almost carried conviction the theory of copulation between women and the males of brutes , his authority being his own avouchment in support of fables such as that of the minotaur which the genius of the elegant latin poet has handed down to us in the pages of his metamorphoses 某异国使节则驳斥上述意见，以热切而坚信不疑之口吻曰： “此乃女子与雄兽交媾所生者。 ”其根据则为优雅拉丁诗人凭其才华在变形记中所传至今之弥诺陶洛斯之类神话。
