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Plutarch tells a pretty story of how an epidemic of suicide among the women of Miletus was suddenly and completely ended by an ordinance decreeing tht self-slain women should be carried naked through the marketplace to their burial.


The Story of Civilization II, The Life of Greece, by Will Durant, page 297

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