“Let not a woman's voice
Be loud in council! for the things without,
A man must care; let women keep within—
Even then is mischief all too probable!”

—  Aeschylus

Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 200–201 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)

Original

Μέλει γὰρ ἀνδρί, μὴ γυνὴ βουλευέτω, τἄξωθεν· ἔνδον δ᾽ οὖσα μὴ βλάβην τίθει.

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