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Edited from a variety of translations (mentioned in the preface) by H. R. Percival
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Page 63
Canon LXX.
Women are not permitted to speak at the time of the Divine Liturgy; but, according to the word of Paul the Apostle, "let them be silent. For it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be in subjection, as the law also saith. But if they wish to learn anything let them ask their own husbands at home."
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon LXX.
Women are not permitted to speak in church.
"Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak," is the passage referred to. 1 Cor. xiv. 34.
Canon LXXI.
Those who are taught the civil laws must not adopt the customs of the Gentiles, nor be induced to go to the theatre, nor to keep what are called Cylestras, nor to wear clothing contrary to the general custom; and this holds good when they begin their training, when they reach its end, and, in short, all the time of its duration. If any one from this time shall dare to do contrary to this canon he is to be cut off.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon LXXI.
Whoever devotes himself to the study of law, uses the manner of the Gentiles, going to the theatre, and rolling in the dust, or dressing differently to custom, shall be cut off.
Liddell and Scott identify kalistra with kalindethra ,which they define as "a place for horses to roll after exercise," and note that it is a synonym of alindethra. But it is interesting to note that alinesis is "a rolling in the dust, an exercise in which wrestlers rolled on the ground."
Hefele says that Balsamon and Zonaras have not been able rightly to explain what we are to understand by the forbidden "Cylestras," but I think Johnson is not far out of the way when he translates "nor to meddle with athletic exercises."
Reference address : https://elpenor.org/ecumenical-councils/quinisext.asp?pg=63
