"Oecon." i. 3, a work based upon or at any rate following the
lines of Xenophon's treatise.

"While in creating the body of woman with less capacity for these
things," I continued, "God would seem to have imposed on her the
indoor works; and knowing that He had implanted in the woman and
imposed upon her the nurture of new-born babies, He endowed her with a
larger share of affection for the new-born child than He bestowed upon
man.[24] And since He imposed on woman the guardianship of the things
imported from without, God, in His wisdom, perceiving that a fearful
spirit was no detriment to guardianship,[25] endowed the woman with a
larger measure of timidity than He bestowed on man. Knowing further
that he to whom the outdoor works belonged would need to defend them
against malign attack, He endowed the man in turn with a larger share
of courage.

[24] {edasato}, "Cyrop." IV. ii. 43.

[25] Cf. "Hipparch," vii. 7; Aristot. "Pol." iii. 2; "Oecon." iii.

"And seeing that both alike feel the need of giving and receiving, He
set down memory and carefulness between them for their common use,[26]
so that you would find it hard to determine which of the two, the male
or the female, has the larger share of these. So, too, God set down
between them for their common use the gift of self-control, where
needed, adding only to that one of the twain, whether man or woman,
which should prove the better, the power to be rewarded with a larger
share of this perfection. And for the very reason that their natures
are not alike adapted to like ends, they stand in greater need of one
another; and the married couple is made more useful to itself, the one