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NAUMACHIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 278 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAUMACHIUS  , a

Greek gnomic poet . Of his poems 73 hexameters (in three fragments) are preserved by Stobaeus in his Florilegium; they
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deal mainly with the duty of a good wife . From the remarks on celibacy and the allusion to a mystic
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marriage it has been conjectured that the author was a Christian . The fragments, translated anonymously into
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English under the title of Advice to the
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Fair Sex (1736), are in Gaisford's Poetae minores Graeci, iii . (1823) .

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