Meidias

“Tell me, Meidias, did your father leave you heir to his estates?”

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So the rest led the way to the dwelling-place of Mania which Meidias had taken from her, and

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Meidias their former master stood no longer in need of their protection.

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Thereupon Meidias sent gifts to Pharnabazus, and claimed to hold the district even as Mania had held it; to whom the other answered,

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Now when Mania was more than forty years old, the husband of her own daughter, Meidias — flustered by the suggestions of certain people who said that it was monstrous a woman should rule and he remain a private person142 — found his way into her presence, as the story goes, and strangled her.

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Meidias also followed close at his side, petitioning that he would hand over the city of Gergithians to himself.

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And now Meidias, partly expecting the hostile advance of

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And Meidias, though he shrank from opening the gates, yet in terror of finding himself on a sudden seized, reluctantly gave the order to open the gates.

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When the inventory of the paternal property was completed, he proceeded: “Tell me, Meidias, to whom did Mania belong?”

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For Mania, albeit she carefully guarded herself against all ordinary comers, as behoved her in the exercise of her “tyranny,” trusted in Meidias, and, as a woman might her own son-inlaw, was ready to greet him at all times with open arms.

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