myia

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Updated: August 6, 2026

Her very bite and blood-thirst tell not of savagery, but of love and human kindness; she is but enjoying mankind as she may, and sipping beauty. In ancient times there was a woman of her name, a poetess wise and beautiful, and another a famous Attic courtesan, of whom the comic poet wrote: As deep as to his heart fair Myia bit him.

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I might add many details about Pythagoras's daughter Myia, were not her story too well known.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03