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King Philip was enamoured of a Thessalian woman who was accused of using
magic charms upon him. Olympias accordingly made haste to get the woman into
her power. But when the latter had come into the queen's presence and was
seen to be beautiful in appearance, and her conversation with the queen was
not lacking in good-breeding or cleverness, Olympias exclaimed, ‘Away
with these slanders! You have your magic charms in yourself.’
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And so a wedded and lawful wife becomes an irresistible thing if she makes
everything, dowry, birth, magic charms, and even the magic girdle 2 itself,
to be inherent in herself, and by character and virtue succeeds in winning
her husband's love.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. 2.
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