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yet for all the woman is weaker than the
man.” “Assuredly.” “Shall we, then,
assign them all to men and nothing to women?” “How could
we?” “We shall rather, I take it, say that one woman has
the nature of a physician and another not, and one is by nature musical, and
another unmusical?” “Surely.” “Can
we, then, deny that one woman is naturally athletic
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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