34. What shall I say concerning the other Mary, i.e. Miriam, the Hebrew form of the name. the sister of Moses, who as leader of the women passed on foot the straits of the sea? Ex. xv. 20. By the same gift Thecla also was reverenced by the lions, so that the unfed beasts stretched at the feet of their prey prolonged a holy fast, and harmed the virgin neither with wanton look nor claw, since virginity is injured even by a look.