toyish

Updated: September 21, 2025

For after supper many of all sorts of flowers being presented to the guests, Ammonius began to jeer me for choosing a rose chaplet before a laurel, saying that those made of flowers were effeminate, and fitted toyish girls and women more than grave philosophers and men of music.

Plutarch - Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies