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Plutarch's Morals

Note 139 — Front matter (continued 2)

A. R. (Arthur Richard) Shilleto translation

On Lais, see Pausanias, ii. 2. Her Thessalian lover is there called Hippostratus. Her favours were so costly that the famous proverb is said to owe its origin to her, "Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum."

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