And when have women paid taxes? By nature of their sex, women are absolved from paying taxes among all mankind. Our mothers did once rise superior to their sex and made contributions when you faced the loss of the empire and the city itself through the conflict with the Carthaginians. But they funded their contributions voluntarily from their jewelry, not from their landed property, their fields, their dowries, or their houses, without which it is impossible for free women to live. Let war with the Celts or Parthians come. We will not be inferior to our mothers when it is a question of common safety. But for civil wars, may we never contribute, nor aid you against each other.