Word: simmoritissai
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...simmoritissai (girl guerrillas), Marianthi soon saw that she had a preferred position as Papouas' girl. Because the guerrillas did not like their girl fighters to be incapacitated by pregnancy, a decree of celibacy had been proclaimed. But Papouas and Marianthi seemed to be exempt. The simmoritissai who obeyed the celibacy rule looked at Marianthi askance-or, as the Greek saying goes, with "half an eye"-but they dared not criticize her to her face...
...that she might have milk, Papouas got Marianthi a goat, and also acquired the services of an orderly to milk and tend the animal. Marianthi knew that many simmoritissai who were sick, wounded, or burdened by babies had been left to die or be taken by the enemy; but she thought that such things could never happen...
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