The Instructor 3.4.27

But the true eunuch is not the one who cannot, but the one who does not wish, to indulge in pleasure. Bearing witness through the prophet Samuel against the Jews who had transgressed, when the people asked for a king, the Word does not promise them the loving Lord, but threatens them with a willful and luxurious tyrant, “who will take your daughters,” he says, “as perfumers and cooks and bakers,” ruling by the law of war, not seeking the government of peace. And many Celts lift the women's litters on high and carry them. Spinning, wool-working, weaving, the women's domestic work, and housekeeping are nowhere to be seen; instead those who make the women false spend the day with them, chattering love stories and wearing out their bodies and souls with deceitful work and deceitful talk. “You shall not be with the many for evil,” it says, “nor join the multitude,” because wisdom appears among the few and disorder in the crowd.