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Dialexeis/ Dissoi logoi, On Seemly and Unseemly, 2.13 (Fragment 2 line 23)
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τοῖς δὲ Θραιξὶ κόσμος τὰς κόρας στίζεσθαι· τοῖς δ’ ἄλλοις τιμωρία τὰ στίγματα τοῖς ἀδικέοντι.
Text Category: Literature: prose
Century Range: 5th century BCE
Deipnosophistae 12.27
Athenaeus
αἱ δὲ γυναῖκες αὐτῶν τὰς Θρᾳκῶν τῶν πρὸς ἑσπέραν καὶ ἄρκτον περιοίκων γυναῖκας ἐποίκιλλον τὰ σώματα, περόναις γραφὴν ἐνεῖσαι. ὅθεν πολλοῖς ἔτεσιν ὕστερον αἱ ὑβρισθεῖσαι τῶν Θρᾳκῶν γυναῖκες ἰδίως ἐξηλείψαντο τὴν συμφορὰν προσαναγραψάμεναι τὰ λοιπὰ τοῦ χρωτός, ἵν᾽ ὁ τῆς ὕβρεως καὶ τῆς αἰσχύνης ἐπ᾽ αὐταῖς χαρακτὴρ εἰς ποικιλίαν καταριθμηθεὶς κόσμου προσηγορίᾳ τοὔνειδος ἐξαλείψῃ:
Text Category: Literature: prose
Century Range: 3rd century CE
Location: Rome
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