[66] Rep., 365, c.
[67] Anth. Pal., vii. 674.
[68] Philostr. Bioi Soph., 620.
[69] x. 1. 60.
[70] It was rage that armed Archilochus with his own iambic.
[71] Bergk, Poetæ Lyrici, p. 696.
[72] Ib. p. 689.
[73] Bergk, p. 691:
Holding a myrtle-rod she blithely moved,
And a fair blossoming rose; the flowing hair
Shadowed her shoulders, falling to her girdle.
[74] The degradation of women was undoubtedly the source of many of the worst faults of the Greek race. Yet it is easy to overestimate the importance of such satires as that of Simonides; nor would it be fair to take them as expressing the deliberate opinion of the nation. The Jews, who gave a nobler place in social life to women, ascribed the fall of man to Eve. Modern literature again, in spite of Christianity and chivalry, is not wanting in epigrams like the following, ascribed to Leo Battista Alberti: "Levity and inconstancy were given to women as a counterbalance to their perfidy and badness; for, could woman stick to her purpose, she would destroy all the fair works of man."