No! a Spartan maid could not be chaste, e'en if she would, who leaves her home and bares her limbs and lets her robe float free, to share with youths their races and their sports.

οὐδ’ ἂν εἰ βούλοιτό τις
σώφρων γένοιτο Σπαρτιατίδων κόρη·
αἳ ξὺν νέοισιν ἐξερημοῦσαι δόμους
γυμνοῖσι μηροῖς καὶ πέπλοις ἀνειμένοις
δρόμους παλαίστρας.

Original text (Ancient Greek)

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