No; my mother was a Lydian, a barbarian; and therefore-- ALCIBIADES.

I understand.

Now the curse of Venus on the fools who made so hateful a law! Speusippus, does not your friend Euripides (The right of Euripides to this line is somewhat disputable.

See Aristophanes; Plutus, 1152.) say "The land where thou art prosperous is thy country ?" Surely we ought to say to every lady "The land where thou art pretty is thy country." Besides, to exclude foreign beauties from the chorus of the initiated in the Elysian fields is less cruel to them than to ourselves.

Chariclea, you shall be initiated.
CHARICLEA.