Book VII, 424

A. “I seek to discover what the meaning of these carvings is that Agis made upon your stele, Lysidice. For the reins and muzzle and the bird who comes from Tanagra celebrated for its fowls, the bold awaker of battles, such are not things that please or become sedentary women, but rather the works of the spindle and the loom.” B. “The bird of the night proclaims me one who rises in the night to work, the reins tell that I directed my house, and this horse’s muzzle that I was not fond of many words and talkative, but full of admirable silence.”