Book 13
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But among the Persians the queen tolerates the king's having a number of concubines, because there the king rules his wife like her master; and also because the queen, as Dinon states in his history of Persia, receives a great deal of respect from the concubines. At all events they offer her adoration. And Priam, too, had a great many women, and Hecuba was not indignant. Accordingly, Priam says— Yet what a race! ere Greece to Ilion came, The pledge of many a loved and loving dame. Nineteen one mother bore—dead, all are dead! Iliad, xxiv. 489.
