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SEVEN WISE MASTERS, THE , a cycle of stories of Oriental origin. A Roman emperor causes his son to be educated away from the court in the seven liberal arts by seven wise masters. On his return to court his stepmother the empress seeks to seduce him. To avert some danger presaged by the stars he is bound over to a week 's silence. During this time the empress accuses him to her husband, and seeks to bring about his death by seven stories which she relates to the emperor; but her narrative is each time confuted by tales of the craft of women related by the sages. Finally the prince's lips are unsealed, the truth exposed, and the wicked empress is executed.The cycle of stories, which appears in many European languages, is of Eastern origin. An analogous collection occurs in Sanskrit, but the Indian original
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' The Latin romance was frequently printed in the 15th century, and Wynkyn de W at-de printed an English version about 1515. See G. Paris, Deux Redactions du roman des sept sages de Rome (Paris, 1876, Soc. des. anc. textes fr.) ; Buchner, Historia septem sapientium . (Erlangen, 1889) ; K. Campbell, A Study of the Romance of the Seven Sages with special
Baltimore , 1898); D. Comparetti, Researches respecting the Book of Sindibdd (Folk-Lore
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