The Instructor 2.12.123

What, then, is still enviable about this adornment, or about your wishing, women, to appear fettered? For if the material removes the reproach, the condition is the same. They seem to me to fall voluntarily into bonds and to boast of rich misfortunes. Perhaps the poets' myth too says that such bonds were thrown around Aphrodite in her adultery, hinting that ornaments are nothing but a symbol of adultery; for Homer called those bonds golden too. And now they are not ashamed to wear the plainest symbols of the evil one. For as the serpent deceived Eve, so golden ornament, using the serpent's shape as bait, has driven the other women mad for outrage, molding themselves images of lampreys and snakes for beauty. The comic poet Nicostratus says: “chains, pendants, rings, bracelets, snakes, anklets, hellebore.”