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Plutarch, Virtues Of Women, 258b

nan for her relatives and friends also brought pressure to bear upon her by way of service and favour to Sinorix, who held such very great power, and they tried to persuade and coerce her. Finally she yielded, and sent for him to come to her, on the ground that the consenting and pledging should take place in the presence of the goddess. When he had come, she received him kindly and, having led him to the altar, poured a libation from a bowl, then drank a portion herself and bade him drink the rest; it was poisoned mixture of milk and honey. When she saw that he had drunk, she uttered a clear cry of joy, and, prostrating herself before the goddess, said, "Icall you to witness, goddess most revered, that for the sake of this day Ihave lived on after the murder of Sinatus

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artemis	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 245
camma	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 245
courage	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 245
empona	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 245
intelligence	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 245
marriage	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 245
modesty (see also pudicitia)	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 245
phrygians	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 245
plutarch,erotikos	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 245
plutarch,mulierum virtutes	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 245
plutarch	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 245
sinorix	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 245
virtue'	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 245