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kneaded his bread in a round mortar. How ought I to call it henceforth?

. How? Call it, as you call.

., in the feminine?

. For so you speak it rightly.

. But that would make it.

. You must learn one thing more about names, what are masculine, and what of them are feminine.

. I know what are female.

. Tell me, pray.

. Lysilla, Philinna, Clitagora, Demetria.

. What names are masculine?

. Thousands: Philoxenus, Melesias, Amynias.

. But, you wretch! these are not masculine.

. Are they not males with you?

. By no means: for how would you call to Amynias, if you met him?

. How would I call? Thus: "Come hither, come hither, Amynia!"

. Do you see? you call Amynias a woman.

. Is it not then with justice, who does not serve in the army? But why should I learn these things, which we all know?