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Quote #10
Myrrhine: "My sweetie, my bitty baby, that's got such a bad father, let me give you a kiss, mommy's little dearest."
Cinesias: "What do you think you're doing, you naughty girl, listening to those other women and giving me a hard time and hurting yourself as well."
Myrrhine: "Don't you lay hands on me!"
Cinesias: "You know you've let our house, your things and mine, become an utter mess?"
Myrrhine: "It doesn't bother me."
Cinesias: "It doesn't bother you that the hens are pulling your woolens apart?"
Myrrhine: "Not a bit."
Cinesias: "And what a long time it's been since you've celebrated Aphrodite's holy mysteries. Won't you come home?"
Myrrhine: "I certainly will not, not until you men agree to a settlement and stop the war." (889-901)
Here, we get the continuation of the exchange between Myrrhine and Cinesias. Cinesias seems shocked that Myrrhine wouldn't care about how the house is becoming a mess. What's really telling is that he lumps "hen pulling woolens apart" and "Aphrodite's holy mysteries," suggesting that Myrrhine should view sex as yet another (ugh) domestic chore.