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Plutarch's Essays and Miscellanies, Vol. 4 (of 5)

Note 84 — OF LOVE. FLAVIANUS AND AUTOBULUS, SONS OF PLUTARCH.

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The famous courtesan Phryne was a native of Thespiae, where her marble statue stood in the temple of Love. She also sent her own statue by Praxiteles (who was her lover) to the temple at Delphi. See Pausanias, X. 15, 1. (G.)

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