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Aristonymus, an Ephesian and the son of Demostratus, was a woman-hater; but he had to do with an ass,
which brought him forth in the ordinary course of time a
most beautiful daughter, which he called Onoscelis.—
Aristotle's Second Book of Paradoxes.
Fulvius Stellus had an aversion to women too; but entertained himself to his satisfaction with a mare, by which
he had a very handsome daughter, that he called Hippona;
and this is the goddess that has the care of the breed of
horses.—According to Agesilaus, in the Third Book of
his Italian History.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.
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