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The Sicilian despot Dionysius according to Plutarch, Moralia, 190 E, 229 A, and Life of Lysander, chap. ii. (p. 439 D). The same story is told of Archidamus in Moralia, 218 E. sent clothing and jewellery of the costly kind to the daughters of Lysander; but Lysander would not accept them, saying, These adornments will disgrace my daughters far more than they will adorn them. But Sophocles,From an unknown play; cf. Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag. p. 310, Sophocles, No. 762. before Lysander, had said this: Adornment! No, you wretch! Naught that adorns ’Twould seem to be—your crazy mind’s desire. For, as Crates used to say, adornment is that which adorns, and that adorns or decorates a woman which makes her more decorous. It is not gold or precious stones or scarlet that makes her such, but whatever invests her with that something which betokens dignity, good behaviour, and modesty.
