2. In the first place these words direct our attention to the different modes of life of the married and unmarried women among the Dorians. Modern manners, derived from the age of chivalry, carefully withdraw young women from all impressions calculated to inflame the passions; while married women are more exposed to intercourse with men. But, according to the colder notions of the Greeks, which are seen most clearly among the Dorians, the unmarried lived more in public than the married women; who attended more to the care of their family; and hence the former alone practised music and athletic exercises; the latter being occupied only with their household affairs.(1242) This explains why at Sparta unmarried women appeared with their faces uncovered, while the married only went out in veils;(1243) and it was common to see the former walking in the streets with young men,(1244) which was certainly not permitted to the others; and so also at Sparta,(1245) in Crete,(1246) and at Olympia, virgins were permitted to be spectators of the gymnastic contests, and _married_ women only were excluded;(1247) the reverse of which was the case in Ionia, where the unmarried women were usually shut up in the interior of the houses.(1248) This different position in society was also marked by the dress, which was lighter and less strict among the unmarried women; for it is these alone who are charged with exposure of their persons. This charge of the Athenians was, however, caused by a strange forgetfulness of ancient custom; for after the mode of treatment of their women had become precisely similar to that of the eastern nations, the ancient Greek usage appeared to them unnatural;(1249) and the dress of the Doric women caused in their minds the same notions as the German dress in those of the Romans; of which Tacitus says, “the German women wear the arms naked up to the shoulders, and even the next part of the breast is uncovered; _notwithstanding which_ they never break the marriage vow.”