Hippolyta

[hi-pol-i-tuh]

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noun Classical Mythology.

a queen of the Amazons, variously said to have been killed by Hercules or to have been conquered and married by Theseus.

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Hippolyta or Hippolyte (hɪˈpɒlɪtə, hɪˈpɒlɪˌtiː)

—n
	Greek myth a queen of the Amazons, slain by Hercules in battle for her belt, which he obtained as his ninth labour

Hippolyte or Hippolyte

—n

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"Theseus. The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Hippolyta. It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.
Theseus. If we imagine no worse of them than they of themselves, they may pass for excellent men."

-Shakespeare

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