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Updated: June 24, 2025
Lampito, dearest of Lakonian women. How shines thy beauty, O my sweetest friend! How fair thy colour, full of life thy frame! Why, thou couldst choke a bull. LAMPITO. Yes, by the Twain; For I do practice the gymnastic art, And, leaping, strike my backbone with my heels. LYSISTRATA. In sooth, thy bust is lovely to behold. The young men lived together, like soldiers in a camp.
And that this was also the kind of ideal approved by their lords and masters, and that any attempt to pass beyond it was resented, is amusingly illustrated in the following extract from the same poet, where Lysistrata explains the growing indignation of the women at the bad conduct of affairs by the men, and the way in which their attempts to interfere were resented.
A woman's prime soon comes; if she misses it, she sits at home looking for omens of a husband; women make the most valuable of all contributions to the State, namely sons. The officer retires to report to the Council. Lysistrata, seeing a weakness in the women's resolution, encourages them with an oracle which promises victory if they will only persist.
'Husband, I say, with a tender solicitude, 'Why have you passed such a foolish decree? Viciously, moodily, glaring askance at me, 'Stick to your spinning, my mistress, says he, 'Else you will speedily find it the worse for you! war is the care and the business of men! Zeus! 'twas a worthy reply, and an excellent! Lysistrata. 507.
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."
Lysistrata is in such bad repute, that we must mention it lightly and rapidly, just as we would tread over hot embers. According to the story of the poet, the women have taken it into their heads to compel their husbands, by a severe resolution, to make peace.
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