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Penelope
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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The wife of Ulysses, celebrated for her conjugal fidelity during his twenty years' absence, in the later half of which an army of suitors pled for her hand, pleading that her husband would never return; but she put them all off by a promise of marriage as soon as she finished a web (called after Penelope's web) she was weaving, which she wove by day and undid at night, till their importunities took a violent form, when her husband arrived and delivered her.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Penelope'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/penelope.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Penelope'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/penelope.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
