Herodotus - The Histories.pdf

82 V Herodotus
their dresses were fastened each, as she struck,
asking him where he had left her husband. And
the man died in this way. The Athenians thought
the deed of the women more horrible even than
the fate of the troops; as however they did not
know how else to punish them, they changed their
dress and compelled them to wear the costume of
the Ionians. Till this time the Athenian women
had worn a Dorian dress, shaped nearly like that
which prevails at Corinth. Henceforth they were
made to wear the linen tunic, which does not
require brooches.
In very truth, however, this dress is not originally
Ionian, but Carian; for anciently the Greek
women all wore the costume which is now called
the Dorian. It is said further that the Argives and
Eginetans made it a custom, on this same account,
for their women to wear brooches half as large
again as formerly, and to offer brooches rather
than anything else in the temple of these goddesses.
They also forbade the bringing of anything
Attic into the temple, were it even a jar of earthenware,
and made a law that none but native