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3Still further, Numa’s watchful care of young maidens was more conducive to feminine decorum; but the treatment of them by Lycurgus, being entirely unconfined and unfeminine, has given occasion to the poets. They call them “phainomerides,” bare-thighed (so Ibycus), and revile them as mad after men. Thus Euripides says:—[3]
“They leave their homes to mingle with the youths;
Their thighs are naked, flying free their robes.”
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Notes
[3] Andromache, 587 f. (Kirchhoff), slightly adapted.