MEDEA

From the house I have come forth, Corinthian ladies, for

fear lest you be blaming me; for well I know that amongst
men many by showing pride have gotten them an ill name
and a reputation for indifference, both those who shun
men's gaze and those who move amid the stranger crowd,
and likewise they who choose a quiet walk in life. For there
is no just discernment in the eyes of men, for they, or ever
they have surely learnt their neighbour's heart, loathe him
at first sight, though never wronged by him; and so a
stranger most of all should adopt a city's views; nor do I
commend that citizen, who, in the stubbornness of his
heart, from churlishness resents the city's will.