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Laïs
A courtesan or Greek Hetaira. There were two of the name; the
elder was the most beautiful woman of Corinth, and lived at the time of
the Peloponnesian War. The beauty of the latter excited the jealousy of
the Thessalonian women, who pricked her to death with their bodkins.
She was contemporary with Phryne (2 syl.), her rival, and sat to
Apelles as a model.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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