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In like manner I would have you consider that he who appears to you to be the worst of those who have been brought up in laws and humanities, would appear to be a just man and a master of justice if he were to be compared with men who had no education, or courts of justice, or laws, or any restraints upon them which compelled them to practise virtue with the savages, for example, whom the poet Pherecrates exhibited on the stage at the last year's Lenaean festival.
When the plot has been explained, viz.: that the women refuse intercourse to their husbands until after peace has been declared Calonice: "But suppose our poor devils of husbands go away and leave us" Lysistrata: "Then, as Pherecrates says, 'we must flay a skinned dog, that's all."
But Dicæarchus, in that discourse of some learned disputants, held at Corinth, which he details to us in three books in the first book introduces many speakers; and in the other two he introduces a certain Pherecrates, an old man of Phthia, who, as he said, was descended from Deucalion; asserting, that there is in fact no such thing at all as a soul, but that it is a name without a meaning; and that it is idle to use the expression "animals," or "animated beings;" that neither men nor beasts have minds or souls, but that all that power by which we act or perceive is equally infused into every living creature, and is inseparable from the body, for if it were not, it would be nothing; nor is there anything whatever really existing except body, which is a single and simple thing, so fashioned as to live and have its sensations in consequence of the regulations of nature.
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