9/27 287) records his own testimony, that he surpassed all men in conjugal vigor; and Abulfeda mentions the exclamation of Ali, who washed the body after his death, "O propheta, certe penis tuus coelum versus erectus est," in Vit. 140.] [Footnote 163: I borrow the style of a father of the church, (Greg. 108.)] [Footnote 164: The common and most glorious legend includes, in a single night the fifty victories of Hercules over the virgin daughters of Thestius, (Diodor.Sicul.tom.i.l. |