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there are some who,
before they know a person inside out,
hate him on sight, even if they have never been wronged by him.
An outsider in particular must conform to the city.
A native too: I do not condone self-absorbed people
who through insensitivity irritate their neighbors.
But for me this unexpected disaster
has wrecked my life. I am cast adrift.
I have lost all pleasure in living and I want to die, my friends.
The man who was everything to me, try to understand this,
has turned out to be the vilest man alive, my own husband.
Of all creatures that have life and reason
we women are the sorriest lot:
first we must at a great expenditure of money
buy a husband and even take on a master over our body:
this evil is more galling than the first.
Here is the most challenging contest,
whether we will get a bad man or a good one.
Besides, divorce is unsavory
for a woman and it is not possible to say no to one's husband.
And when she comes into new customs and rules
a woman must be a prophet of what she could never learn at home:
how best to deal with her marriage partner;
and if we get it worked out well and a husband shares
our life with us, and he bears the yoke without violence,
life is to be envied. Otherwise we are better off dead.
But the man, when he is bored with things at home
he can go out to ease the weariness of his heart.
But we have just one person to look to.
They say that we live a life free of danger
at home while they face battle with the spear.
How wrong they are. I would rather stand three times
in the line of battle than once bear a child.
But the same story does not apply to you and me.
You have this city and your father's home,
enjoyment of life, and the companionship of friends,
but, alone and without a city, I am abused by my husband,
carried off as plunder from a foreign land,
I have no mother, no brother, no relative
to offer me a safe haven from this disaster.
I ask you this one small favor:
if some way or means can be found
to make my husband pay for this abuse
[and the father of the bride and the bride herself — keep it silent.
For a woman in all other things is full of fear
and a coward when it comes to looking on deeds of valor and the
sword but when she is wronged in her marriage
there is no heart more bloodthirsty."
"Women of Corinth, I have come out of the house,
so that you will not hold anything against me.
I know that many people are standoffish,
some in the privacy of home
and others in the public sphere.
Some people, because they are shy,
have acquired the ill repute of indifference.
There is no justice in people's perception:
