Chorus: We women could indeed have many complaints in court.
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Chorus: Justly to the men, but one thing is most supernatural.
Chorus: For we should have been, if someone had borne us a good man for the city,
Chorus: to take a tax-archon or a general, to receive some honor,
Chorus: that a seat of honor be given to her by the Stenians and the Scirians.
Chorus: and at the other festivals as well we led the way;
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Chorus: but if a woman should bear a cowardly and wicked man,
Chorus: Either a wicked trierarch or a bad helmsman,
Chorus: She should sit down later, with her head cut off, on a pot.
Chorus: of the one who gave birth to the manly one. For it is fitting, O city.
Chorus: to sit with Hyperbolus' mother dressed up
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Chorus: They have laid down white clothes and hair beside Lamachus,
Chorus: and to lend money, as he ought, if he were to lend to someone
Chorus: And may interest accrue, but let no one of men pay interest,
Chorus: But having said this, to take the money by force,
Chorus: Surely you are worthy of the interest that you bore, having given birth to such interest.
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Thesmophoriazusae. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.