ABSTRACT
Further examples are not wanting of the invincible constancy of women in the custody of secrets. Pythagoras, when near death, confided all his writings, containing the most recondite mysteries of his philosophy, to the learned Damo, his daughter, with the command never to publish them. This she obeyed so scrupulously, that although reduced to the depths of poverty and able to sell the books for a great sum of money, she preferred remaining faithful to her father's trust to rescuing herself from the sufferings of penury.
