text:  Can we wonder at this? Under that glorious heaven such women might when they chose behold the statues of Phidias and the pictures of Zeuxis; they could listen to the wisdom of Socrates or they might form part of the crowd hushed in raptured silence round the rhapsodist as he recited the immortal lines of Homer--or round Demosthenes as he poured upon a rival worthy of himself the burning torrent of his more than human eloquence