First, there were three kinds of humans—not two, as there are now, male and female, |E| but in addition a third, which had a share in both of these, and of which the name alone is left over, while the kind itself has disappeared. For at that time one kind was man-woman, sharing in form as well as name in both male and female, but now it exists as nothing but a name used in reproach.
Aristophanes speech
