Women, c. 300 B.CE

What!
when you court concealment, will you tell the matter to a woman?
Just as well tell all the criers in the public squares!
'Tis hard to say which of them louder blares. Great Zeus, may I perish, if I ever spoke against woman, the most precious of all acquisitions.
For if Medea was an objectionable person, surely Penelope was an excellent creature.
Does anyone abuse Clytemnestra?
I oppose the admirable Alkestis.
But perhaps someone may abuse Phaidra;
then I say, by Zeus! what a capital person was . . .

Oh, dear!
the catalogue of good women is already exhausted....