“With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.”
With much seductive speech she persuades him, with flattering lips she compels him—identifying the primary mechanism through which the foreign woman operates as rhetorical: flattery and alluring words that override rational judgment. The accumulation of her persuasive techniques—seductive speech, flattering lips, elaborate preparations, sensory environment, and appeal to pleasure—reveals that seduction is a comprehensive assault on the young man's judgment and resistance. The verb
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