“Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.”

— Jonathan Stroud , book The Ring of Solomon

Source: The Ring of Solomon

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