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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 drinking
vessels should be used there in time to come. From this early age to
my own day the Argive and Eginetan women have always continued to wear
their brooches larger than formerly, through hatred of the Athenians.
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