The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
My men have become women, but the women men.
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.