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indeed, whose work or character was worth consider-
ation—could have endured, no matter for what reason, the
unpicking of her day’s work, day after day for between three
and four years.
{187} We must suppose Dolius not yet to know that his
son Melanthius had been tortured, mutilated, and left to
die by Ulysses’ orders on the preceding day, and that his
daughter Melantho had been hanged. Dolius was probably
exceptionally simple-minded, and his name was ironical.
So on Mt. Eryx I was shown a man who was always called
Sonza Malizia or ‘Guileless’—he being held exceptionally
cunning.