xanthippe in English
noun
1
( 5th century bc ) , wife of Socrates. Her allegedly bad-tempered behavior toward her husband made her proverbial as a shrew.
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1. Through the passageway, Socrates' wife, Xanthippe, is escorted from the prison cell by warders.
2. In Greek mythology, Pleuron, a son of Aetolus and Pronoe, and brother of Calydon, was married to Xanthippe, daughter of Dorus, by whom he became the father of Agenor, Sterope, Stratonice, and Laophonte