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Rh Callicratidas: In the words of the all-wise Euripides: "It will be better, rather than have dealings with women, to go into the temples and the sacred places and purchase children in exchange for gold and silver, so as to assure our posterity."$5$ In truth, necessity burdens us under her heavy yoke, and forces us to obey. If, on one hand, thanks to intellect, we opt for the beautiful, then, on the other, let the useful yield to the needful. Let there be women for making children, but as for the rest, I will have none of it. What sane man could stand a woman who, from morning on, bedecks herself with strange artifices? Her true figure is devoid of beauty, and she covers up the indecencies of nature with borrowed ornaments. 79