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An Egyptian Princess
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CHAPTER VII
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The well-known fable of Pandora owes its origin to Simonides.

He lived about 650 B.C.The Egyptians too, speak very severely of bad women, comparing them quite in the Simonides style to beasts of prey (hyenas, lions and panthers).

We find this sentence on a vicious woman: She is a collection of every kind of meanness, and a bag full of wiles.

Chabas, Papyr.

magrque Harris.
p.135.Phocylides of Miletus, a rough and sarcastic, but observant man, imitated Simonides in his style of writing.


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