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[204] just as no man here would dress himself in a flowered robe reaching to the feet, although this dress, which with us is thought shameful, is held to be highly respectable by the Persians. And when, at the Court of Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily, a dress of this description was offered to the philosophers Plato and Aristippus,
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Plato sent it away with the words—
A man am I, and never could I don
A woman’s garb; but Aristippus accepted it, saying—
For e’en midst revel-routs
She that is chaste will keep her purity. Thus, even in the case of these sages, while the one of them deemed this practice shameful, the other did not.
Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. Robert Gregg Bury (Translator). London. 1933.
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