...rosecuted as a seducer, and then, revealing her sex, was prosecuted for her deception, till the chief women of Athens appeared in her behalf and secured for their sex the right to be physicians; when Telesilla of Argos roused her country-women to defend the walls against the Spartans, the men having lost courage,--after which, in a commemorative festival, the women appeared in male attire and the men came ...