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            <request>
                <requestName>GetPassage</requestName>
                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:M.mestra_1</requestUrn>
            </request>
            <reply>
                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:M.mestra_1</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="M"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="mestra-bio-1" n="mestra_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Mestra</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Μήστρα</surname></persName>), a daughter of
      Erysichthon, and granddaughter of Triopas (whence she is called Triopcis, <bibl n="Ov. Met. 8.872">Ov. Met. 8.872</bibl>). She was sold by her hungry father, that he might
      obtain the means of satisfying his hunger. In order to escape from slavery, she prayed to
      Poseidon, who loved her, and conferred on her the power of metamorphosing herself whenever she
      was sold, and of thus each time returning to her father. (Tzetz. <hi rend="ital">ad Lyc.</hi>
      1393; <bibl n="Ov. Met. 8.847">Ov. Met. 8.847</bibl>, &amp;c.; <bibl n="Ant. Lib. 17">Ant.
       Lib. 17</bibl>, who calls her Hypermestra.) </p><byline>[<ref target="author.L.S">L.S</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
                </passage>
            </reply>
            </GetPassage>