Those incidents which are so often recited, and those of which I assume that you, having kept company with books, have assuredly record and knowledge, I will pass over for the present; but with this exception: if any tales worthy of perusal have escaped the attention of those who, before our time, have recorded the commonly published stories. Since, however, many deeds worthy of mention have been done by women both in association with other women and by themselves alone, it may not be a bad idea to set down first a brief account of those commonly known.
I. THE TROJAN WOMEN Cf. Moralia, 265 b; Plutarch’s Life of Romulus, chap. i. (17 f); Polyaenus, Strategemata, viii. 25. 2. The story differs in some details from Virgil’s account, as was noted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his Roman Antiquities, i. 72-73.