Note 1 — Chapter III · THE THESMOPHORIAN FESTIVAL.
Mary J. (Mary Joanna) Safford translation
“You are right! I did not grow up in the dull solitude of an Athenian women’s apartment; I did not attend your Brauronia1 in a saffron robe, did not carry a basket on my head and wear a string of withered figs around my neck in your Panathenaic procession, did not wail upon the roofs at your Adonis festival. I have not spoken as an Athenian to Athenians, but as a woman to women.”