ABSTRACT
A virtuous woman had patience (with her husband), her house flourished (or continued well peopled).
words which would have been used if her husband had divorced her and she had left the house: here is to be understood
Your tallr:i?lg is fine, but OU1' house is far distant, In spite of all your fine reasoning I am far from
complying with your desire, is often used in Egypt synonymously with as the verb is used instead of
C"ook-backed, limping, her right hand trembling. Denoting a woman afflicted with every kina of
misery. in the Egyptian dialect, means one who labours under a tremor produced by extreme
