Goes elsewhere and thus rids his soul of its boredom. A man, whenever he is annoyed with the company of those in the house, If after we have spent great efforts on these tasks our husbands live with us without resenting the marriage-yoke, our life is enviable. How she shall best deal with her husband. And when a woman comes into the new customs and practices of her husband's house, she must somehow divine, since she has not learned it at home, For divorce is discreditable for women and it is not possible to refuse wedlock. Īnd the outcome of our life's striving hangs on this, whether we take a bad or a good husband. First at an exorbitant price we must buy a husband and master of our bodies. Of all creatures that have breath and sensation, we women are the most unfortunate. For the man in whom all I had was bound up, as I well know-my husband-has proved the basest of men. I am undone, I have resigned all joy in life, and I want to die. In my case, however, this sudden blow that has struck me has destroyed my life. Now a foreigner must be quite compliant with the city, nor do I have any words of praise for the citizen who is stubborn and causes his fellow-citizens pain by his lack of breeding. Since before they get sure knowledge of a man's true character they hate him on sight, although he has done them no harm. For I know that though many mortals are haughty both in private and in public, others get a reputation for indifference to their neighbors from their retiring manner of life.

Women of Corinth, I have come out of the house Enter Medea with the Nurse from the house.

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