The Instructor 3.2.7

Naturally they become idle for housekeeping, sitting like painted pictures, made to be looked at, not for keeping house. That is why the thoughtful woman in the comic poet says: “What wise or splendid thing could we women do, who sit about all made up,” corrupting the character of free women, bringing about the overthrow of households, the ruin of marriages, and the substitution of children. Antiphanes the comic poet, in The Soft Woman, mocks this courtesan-like behavior of women, using words common to them all, invented for wasting time: “She comes, she goes again, she comes up again, she goes, she arrives, she is here, she washes, she comes up, she is soaped, she is combed, she steps out, she is rubbed, she bathes, she looks at herself, she is dressed, she is perfumed, she is adorned, she is anointed; † and if she has anything, she hangs herself.”