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Quotation from Heroides by Ovid

“She is not faithful who regrets her faith.”

Ovid (spoken by Hypermnestra)

Heroides, Letter XIV (Hypermnestra to Lynceus), trans. Grant Showerman (1914)

Hypermnestra declares that no threat from her father will make her say she repents of sparing Lynceus.

Citation: "She is not faithful who regrets her faith." — Ovid, Heroides, Letter XIV (Hypermnestra to Lynceus), trans. Grant Showerman (1914). (id ovid-heroides-q6)

Virtues: Fortitude

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