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Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies. Vol 1

Note 139* — SECOND DISCOURSE

A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson translation

[139] P. 261:

◆The usual form is Ortiagon. The woman is the beautiful Queen Chiomara. (Cf. Livy, XXXVIII., cap. xxiv., and Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus, LXXIV.) Chiomara, wife of Ortiagon, King of Galatia, was taken prisoner by the Romans when Cn. Manlius Vulso invaded Galatia, B. C. 189. The story is told by Polybius (XXII., 21).

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