Note 1174 — Chapter III · CONDITION OF UNMARRIED WOMEN.—LOVE.
Reading edition
Plat. de Legg. vii. t. viii. p. 59. Bekk. Compare with this the song of the φαλλοφόρος..—Athen. xiv. 16.
Σοὶ, Βάκχε, τάνδε μοῦσαν αγλαΐζομεν,
Ἁπλοῦν ῥυθμὸν χεόντες αἰόλῳ μέλει,
Καὶ μὰν, ἀπαρθένευτον. κ. τ. λ.
His songs and his acting were, no doubt, little suited to the taste of a virgin; but if virgins had never frequented the theatre, and the comic theatre, too, where would have been the necessity for any such remark?