Note 668 — Chapter VI · LAWS AND DISCIPLINE OF LYKURGUS AT SPARTA.
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Eurip. Androm. 598; Cicero, Tuscul. Quæst. ii. 15. The epithet φαινομηρίδες, as old as the poet Ibykus, shows that the Spartan women were not uncovered (see Julius Pollux, vii. 55).
It is scarcely worth while to notice the poetical allusions of Ovid and Propertius.
How completely the practice of gymnastic and military training for young women, analogous to that of the other sex, was approved by Plato, may be seen from the injunctions in his Republic.