[36] ‘Athenæus,’ 14, 19, p. 624e.
[37] “To attack a woman’s reputation is the ready resort of the blockhead who is jealous of her talents.”—Miss Cornwallis.
[38] ii. 135.
[39] Rhet. 23.
[40] Luňák, p. 71 note, and Boech, ‘Greek Inscriptions,’ 2374 (51).
[41] It seems to have been possible for an Athenian to take a free Athenian woman as a concubine; but the rights of such concubines and children, and indeed the whole subject, are involved in difficulties. See Van den Es: ‘De Jure Familiarum apud Athenienses.’
[42] Xen. ‘Œc.’ iii. 13; vii. 5.
[43] v. 641.
[44] The verses in Sophocles (‘Antig.’ 905–13) are probably interpolated, but the interpolation was as early as Aristotle (‘Rhet.’ 3, 16, p. 1417 A, 32), and the same ideas are placed by Herodotus (3, 119) in the mouth of the wife of Intaphernes.
[45] ii. 45.