Plut. Mor., Virtues of Women 21 — Concerning the Virtues of Women

Plut. Mor., Virtues of Women 21 — Concerning the Virtues of Women, Plutarch; served verbatim

EXAMPLE 21. Stratonica. Galatia also produced Stratonica the wife of Deiotarus, and Chiomara the wife of Ortiagon, both of them women worth remembrance. Stratonica knowing that her husband wanted children of his own body to succeed in his kingdom, she being barren persuaded him to beget a child on another woman, and subject it to her tutelage. Deiotarus admiring her proposal, committed all to her care upon that account. She provided a comely virgin for him from among the captives, Electra by name, and brought her to lie with Deiotarus. The children begotten of her she educated very tenderly and magnificently, as if they had been her own.

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass

Deiotarus — a life

Concerning the Virtues of Women, Plutarch — translated by Isaac Chauncy (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
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