Women are therefore to philosophize equally with men, though the males are preferable at everything, unless they have become effeminate. [2773] To the whole human race, then, discipline and virtue are a necessity, if they would pursue after happiness. And how recklessly Euripides writes sometimes this and sometimes that! On one occasion, "For every wife is inferior to her husband, though the most excellent one marry her that is of fair fame." And on another:--
"For the chaste is her husband's slave,
While she that is unchaste in her folly despises her consort.
. . . . For nothing is better and more excellent,
Than when as husband and wife ye keep house,
Harmonious in your sentiments."
[2773] [The Edin. Trans. has "best at everything," but I have corrected it in closer accord with the comparative degree in the Greek.]
Clement of Alexandria in Print
