WOMEN.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 152, 11 August 1883, Page 10

WOMEN.

WHAT SHE GREEKS SAID' ABOUT: THEM. (Specially Compiled job the OBSEfty^ft.) V^ To form devices quick is woman's "wit. — Euripides. Wiles and deceit are female qualities.— iEschylus. To women silence gives their proper grace. — Sophocles. It is much worse to irritate an old woman tha*» a dog. — Menander. *w^ Where are women there are all kinds of mischief. — Menander. To marry a wife, if we regard the truth, is an evil, but it is a necessary evil. — Menander. Eeinember this, wooers : Make your brjdes daughters of a virtuous mother. — Euripides. Than woman there is no fouler and Tiler fiend, when her mind is bent to ill. — Homer. The two pleasantest days of a woman are her marriage day and the day of her funeral. — Hipponactis. He who weds a wife of higher rank and nobler blood sinks into nothing, lost in her superior splendour. — Euripides. Though thou lovest thy wife, tell not every- - thing thou knowest to her; but unfold some trifle while thou concealest the rest. — Homer. . For women are formed by nature to have someconsolation in present troubles, by having them always in their mouth and on their tongue. — Euripides. Only one thing I believe in a woman, that she will not come to life again after she is dead ; in everything else I distrust her till she is dead. — i Antiphanes. Whoever, allured by riches or high rank, marries a vicious woman is a fool ; for a humble yet modest partner is better in our house than a noble one. — Euripides. Women are an evil ; but yet, O, fellow Citizens ! we cannot conduct our household affairs without this evil. For to marry or not to; 1 marry is equally an evil. — Susario. . A woman is most ingenious in providing money ; and when she is at the head of a h*o s use, can never be deceived, for they themselves are accustomed to deceive. — Aristophanes. The woman, who, in her husband's absence, seeks to set her beauty fortb^ mark her aB a wanton ; she would not adorn her person to appear abroad unless she was inclined to ill. — Euripides. Strange that the gods should have given healing medicine against the venom of savage serpents, but none have found a cure against a bad woman, more noxious than the viper or fire itself. — Euripides. Neither in adversity nor in the joys of prosperity may Ibe associatad with womankind ;' for A when woman -is joyous, Jhev license is not to be 1 endured ; and when she is in terroF,' sbe-is^a^still m greater plague to her home and city. — iEschyj^MMJ In general, women are divorced for glaring?siiS( notable faults; yet, sometimes, aIBO, a peevish; disposition, an uncomplying temper, small bufc constant bickerings, though unknown to the world, cause incurable distastes hi married Kfev "^ — Plutarchus. To be brief, if anyone in past tinier htis reviled women ; if anyone now does, or hereafter shall revile them, in one brief sentence ieh all comprise . the whole: It is a. breed which neither sea nor earth produces the like ; he vrho id alvrnys with them knows them best. — Euripides. For man, though he be grey-headed when he comes back, soon gets a yoaug wife. Bufc*a woman's time is short within which she can obtain a husband. If she allows it to slip away, no one cares to marry her. She sits at home speculating on the probabilities of her marriage. — Antiphanes. .~ For there is nothing better than a good *\?ife, and nothing worse than a bad one, who is fondjc>£ gadding about. Such a one roasts her husband, stouk-heavted though, he may be, without a fire, and hands him over to a premature old age. — • Hesiodus. v Nature has given horns to bulls, hoofs to horses, swiftness to hares, the power of swimming* to fishes, of flying to birds, understanding to men. % She had nothing more for women. What/thlsn, * does she give ? Beauty, which can resist shields and spears. She who is beautiful is ■ stronger than iron or fire. — Anacreon. h But never, never (for I shall repeat ifcnibre than once) should the wise allow females to^ frequent their house ; they are instructors to evil deeds. One corrupts the wife to make gain^fejjr it'; another, who has fallen from virtue, wishes to make her vile, like herself, And many do this from mere wantonness ; hence the homes of men are ruined. Against such let him guard well his gates with, bolts and bars, for these visits of women from without do \is no good, but abundant ill. — Euripides. By this, too, it is evident that woman is a great evil ; for the father who begot and brought ncr up gives her a dowry and sends her away to be rid of the evil. But the husband, on the other hand, when he has received the bane into'hia house, rejoices and puts splendid ornaments on the vile image, tricking her out with robes (unhappy man), exhausting all tjHjg riches of hi 9 house upon her. But he m'kfes a virtue of necessity, for, having allied himself to noble kinfirman, he retains with seeming joy his uneasy bed, or, if he has received a goodjbride, he forgets t?l»ie evil in consideration of tb^good. Happy is fie who leads to, his house a plain, gentle-hearted, simple wife. I hate the knowing dame ; may there not be in my house any more wise than a ■* woman ought to be. For Venus with ease* engenders wiles in these knowing dames j bui^'a woman of simple capacity, by reason of hex small understanding, is removed from folly.—Euripides. "^

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