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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4)

Note 160 — LIFE OF CICERO.

George Long translation

The story of the monster sphinx and her ænigma which Œdipus solved is well known. This work of art was of metal, according to Pliny (Hist. Nat. 34. c. 18).

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