Talmai — Addition C 18: She hates the royal ornament she must wear in public, like an unclean thing.
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Canonical: https://talmai.wrootpress.com/unit/esth-plus-04.17-18/
Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.4.1a-30a

GREEK: σὺ οἶδας τὴν ἀνάγκην μου, ὅτι βδελύσσομαι τὸ σημεῖον τῆς ὑπερηφανίας μου ὅ ἐστιν ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς μου ἐν ἡμέραις ὀπτασίας μου· βδελύσσομαι αὐτὸ ὡς ῥάκος καταμηνίων, καὶ οὐ φορῶ αὐτὸ ἐν ἡμέραις ἡσυχίας μου.
ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): You know my necessity, that I abhor the sign of my pride that is upon my head on the days I appear in public; I abhor it as a menstrual cloth, and I do not wear it on the days I am at rest.

PARALLELS:
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Abba Guryon 3:16 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Abba Guryon) — conduit: lost intermediary. A specific, non-stock niddah image links the two: Addition C has Esther loathe the royal diadem 'as a menstrual cloth,' and this letter complains that even the king looks to Jewish eyes 'like a menstruant woman' -- the same image, inverted between petitioner and grievance.
- [Flagged] Megillah 15a:10 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Both independently attach menstrual/niddah imagery to Esther's crisis -- an unusual, specific, extra-MT motif shared between the Talmud's 'she menstruated' and the plus's 'as a menstrual cloth.'
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I 1:30 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I) — conduit: lost intermediary. Esther's 'va-titchalchal' is explained as menstruation (piresah niddah) -- the same concrete image of menstrual impurity that Addition C's Esther invokes for her loathing of the royal diadem ('I abhor it as a menstrual cloth').
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 2:11 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. Hegai specifically asks why Esther alone does not adorn herself like all the other women -- her habitual refusal of the royal ornament/adornment, matching Addition C's explicit loathing of 'the sign of my pride... upon my head.'
- [Motif] Megillah 13b:7 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Esther showing her menstrual blood to the sages is the same unusual niddah imagery attached to Esther independently of MT, matching the plus's 'menstrual cloth.'
- [Motif] Aramaic Targum to Esther 2:20 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. Esther keeping sabbaths and festivals privately while serving publicly as queen matches the plus's distinction between the royal ornament worn in public and what she rejects in her days of rest -- a private/public split not in MT.
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 5:3 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. Esther sets her crown down beside Haman's purely to breed jealousy -- handling the royal ornament as a political tool rather than as honor, the same instrumental, non-honoring attitude toward the diadem that Addition C states outright.