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est of female virtues, for she superintends the household, and looks after her husband's dinner. I believe she was a mountaineer: παρθένος ὀυρεσίφοιτος, ἐρήμαδι σύντροφος ὕλῃ,[1] as Nonnus sweetly sings.

  1. A mountain-wandering maid,
    Twin-nourished with the solitary wood.