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Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies. Vol 1

Note 89* — FIRST DISCOURSE (continued 3)

A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson translation

[89] P. 155:

◆According to his habit, Brantôme disfigures what he quotes. Vesta Oppia alone has the right to the name of “good woman”; Cluvia was a profession-courtesan. (Cf. Livy, XXVI., Chap. xxxiii.)

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