To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look upon.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Head. But without any other covering. (Chaldean) Sulpitius entertained perhaps the same idea. Stulto rege consultior, pudens, virorum oculis spectaculum corporis præbere jussa, abnuit. (Haydock)
Some Greek copies assert, very improbably, (Calmet) that she was sent for "to be crowned queen. "
Beautiful. "The Persian ladies were noted for beauty "(Ammian) insomuch that Alexander called them eye-sores, oculorum dolores. (Curtius)
Only prostitutes appeared publicly at feasts. (Macrob. vii. 1.) (St. Ambrose, de Elia. i. 15.)
In effect, Vasthi's refusal was conformable to the laws of the country. (Josephus) (Plutarch in Themist.)
Her offence consisted, therefore, rather in her haughty carriage or words. (Haydock)
For the proposal was neither decent nor safe for the king, (Grotius) as the history of Candaules shews. (Herodotus i.) (Not. Var. in Sulpitius)
