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XANTHIPPE
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Page 881
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XANTHIPPE , the wife of See also: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 (" Zur Ehrenrettung der Xanthippe," in his Vortrdge and Abhandlungen, i., 1875) . |
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