A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Phædyma

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PHÆDYMA,

Daughter of Olanes, one of the seven Persian lords who conspired against Smerdis the Magian. Being married to Smerdis, who pretended to be the son of Cyrus the Great, she discovered his imposture to her father, by his want of ears, which Cambyses had cut off. She lived B.C. 621.