EXAMPLE 21. _Stratonica._

Galatia also produced Stratonica the wife of Deiotarus, and Chiomara

the wife of Ortiagon, both of them women worth remembrance. Stratonica

knowing that her husband wanted children of his own body to succeed in

his kingdom, she being barren persuaded him to beget a child on another

woman, and subject it to her tutelage. Deiotarus admiring her proposal,

committed all to her care upon that account. She provided a comely

virgin for him from among the captives, Electra by name, and brought

her to lie with Deiotarus. The children begotten of her she educated

very tenderly and magnificently, as if they had been her own.

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