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286.The She-Goats and Their Beards

THE SHE-GOATS having obtained a beard by request to Jove, the he-Goats were sorely displeased and made complaint that the females equalled them in dignity.

“Allow them,” said Jove, “to enjoy an empty honour and to assume the badge of your nobler sex, so long as they are not your equals in strength or courage.”

It matters if those who are inferior to us in merit get like us in outside appearances, but hardly enough.