When he uses the pronoun them, he talks about women.
He says "Pygmalion had seen them, spending their lives in wickedness, and, offended by the failings that nature gave the female heart, he lived as a bachelor, without a wife or partner for his bed".
And that is why he decided to create his own partner, he carved a sculpture and he fell in love with it.
In the first sentence, Ovid writes, "Pygmalion had seen them, spending their lives in wickedness" the people being referred to were the women.
A pronoun refers to a word that can be used to replace the noun in a sentence. Examples of pronouns include he, she, it, them, you, etc.
According to Ovid, the statement "Pygmalion had seen them, spending their lives in wickedness" was used to illustrate the wickedness of the women that he had seen and how he eventually preferred to stay single.
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