"But you did well for every man, O Solon:
For they do say you were the first to see
The justice of a public-spirited measure,
The saviour of the State (and it is fit
For me to utter this avowal, Solon);
You, seeing that the State was full of men,
Young, and possessed of all the natural appetites,
And wandering in their lusts where they'd no business.
Bought women and in certain spots did place them,
Common to be and ready for all comers.