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

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

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