1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Vultur

A mountain dividing Apulia and Lucania near Venusia, and is a branch of the Apennines. It is celebrated by Horace as one of the haunts of his youth. From it the southeast wind was called Vulturnus by the Romans.

Xanthippe or Xantippe. The wife of Socrates, remarkable for her ill-humor and fretful disposition. She was a constant torment to her husband, and on one occasion, after bitterly reviling him, she emptied a vessel of dirty water on him, on which the philosopher coolly remarked, "After thunder, rain generally falls."

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