Xantippa

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Pronounced Pron. zan-TIP-ə(English)

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Latinate form of XANTHIPPE. Saint Xantippa or Xanthippe and her sister Saint POLYXENA were Spanish martyrs of the 1st century. The apocryphal Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena is a 3rd- or 4th-century account of their lives.