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Updated: May 23, 2025
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."
Her complaint is based upon the fact that all the men were constantly absent upon military duty and the force of the play lies in her strategic control of a commodity in great demand among the male members of society. Quoting again from the same play: Calonice: "And why do you summon us, Lysistrata dear? What is it all about?" Lysistrata: "About a big affair."
Calonice: "And is it thick, too'?" Lysistrata: "Indeed it is, great and big too." Calonice: "And we are not all on the spot!" Lysistrata: "Oh! If it were what you have in mind, there would never be an absentee. No, no, it concerns a thing I have turned about and about, this way and that, for many sleepless nights."
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