Note 51 — Chapter VIII · THE WOMEN’S FESTIVAL.—THE ECCLESIAZUSÆ.
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Perhaps his most bitter words are those addressed to Phædra by Bellerophon, in the lost tragedy of that name,—
“O thou most vile! thou—woman!—For what word That lips could frame could carry more reproach?”
But we must not forget Shakspeare’s—“Frailty, thy name is woman!” or judge the poet too harshly by a passionate expression put into the mouth of one of his characters.