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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 881 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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XANTHIPPE , the wife of See also: SOCRATES Socrates (q.v.) . Her name has become proverbial in the sense of a nagging, quarrelsome woman . Attempts have been made to show that she has been maligned, notably by E . See also: ZELLER, EDUARD (1814-1908) Zeller (" Zur Ehrenrettung der Xanthippe," in his Vortrdge and Abhandlungen, i., 1875) . End of Article: XANTHIPPE
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