For this reason I was eager, from the things esteemed among you, to establish that our affairs are sober, while your customs are possessed of much madness. For those who say that we babble among women and youths, maidens and old women, and who mock us because we are not with you—hear the nonsense of the affairs among the Greeks. For their pursuits drivel through much more reputation than the practices of the gods among you, and through the women's quarters you behave shamefully. For Lysippus cast in bronze a statue of Praxilla, who said nothing useful through her poems, and Menestratus one of Learchis, and Silanion one of Sappho the courtesan, and Naucydes one of Erinna the Lesbian, and Boiscus one of Myrtis, and Cephisodotus one of Myro of Byzantium, and Gomphus one of Praxagoris, and Amphistratus one of Cleito. What need have I to speak of Anyte, and Telesilla, and Mystis? For of the one Euthycrates and Cephisodotus are the sculptors, of another Niceratus, of another Aristodotus; of Mnesiarchis the Ephesian, Euthycrates; of Corinna, Silanion; of Thalarchis the Argive, Euthycrates. These I was eager to mention, so that you might not suppose anything strange is done among us, and that, comparing the practices before your eyes, you might not mock the women who philosophize among us. And Sappho indeed was a lewd little woman, mad with love, and she sings of her own licentiousness; but all the women among us are chaste, and at the distaff the maidens utter words concerning God more earnestly than that girl among you. For this reason be ashamed, you who are found to be disciples of little women, while you mock those who live as citizens with us, together with the assembly that is with them. For what solemn thing did Glaucippe introduce to you as a child—she who bore a monstrous thing, as her statue shows, Niceratus, of the lineage of Euctemon the Athenian, having cast it in bronze? For if she conceived an elephant, what was the reason for Glaucippe to enjoy public honor? Phryne the courtesan, too, Praxiteles and Herodotus made for you, and Euthycrates cast in bronze Panteuchis conceiving by a seducer. Besantis, the queen of the Paeonians, because she bore a black child, Deinomenes by his own art contrived to be remembered. I have condemned even Pythagoras, who set up Europa upon the bull, and you too, who have honored the accuser of Zeus on account of that man's art. I laugh too at the skill of Myron, who made a heifer, and upon it a Victory, because, having seized the daughter of Agenor, he carried off the prize of adultery and incontinence. Glycera the courtesan and Argeia the harp-player, Herodotus of Olynthus fashioned. Bryaxis set up Pasiphae, whose licentiousness they commemorated, and so all but chose the women now to be such as she. There was a certain Melanippe, a wise woman; for this reason Lysistratus fashioned her. And you, then—have you not believed that there are wise women among us?