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Polystratus
Stay. I know now whom you mean, as well from your description as from her nationality. You said that there were eunuchs in her train?Lycinus
Yes; and soldiers too.Polystratus
My simple friend, the lady you have been describing is a celebrity, and possesses the affections of an Emperor.Lycinus
And her name?Polystratus
Adds one more to the list of her charms; for it is the same as that of Abradatas’s wife. 1 You know Xenophon’s enthusiastic account of that beautiful and virtuous woman?—And you have read it a dozen times.Lycinus
Yes; and every time I read it, it is as if she stood before me. I almost hear her uttering the words the historian has put into her mouth, and see her arming her husband and sending him forth to battle.Imagines. Lucian. Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator). Medford, MA, USA. 2023-08-01.
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