NaPM April 8th 2019

[dukealien]

a terrible verse for a terrible pun

Some women in Athens conspired, long ago,
to seize for themselves the vote.
The deme of envy the men called their group,
although, as a joke, they were heard.
And when the white stones for their speech came up short,
the men continued to laugh
by stripping them, holding their dresses for caulk
on triremes for Sicily bound.

Neat, an incident I'd not heard of.

The accusation being false, and the women presumably opposing the Sicilian expedition... which became an unmitigated disaster for Athens.