Let us also hear another characteristic, that of her voice. For she is lying in speech just as she is in nature. She is stinging and yet pleasing, and as a result of this the voice of women is compared to the song of the Sirens, who attract those who sail past with sweet melody and eventually kill them. Women do kill in that they empty wallets, drain strength, and forcibly cause the loss of God. Again Valerius says the following in the letter To Rufinus, “The delight gives pleasure and the transgression pricks the senses. The flower of Venus is a rose because under its dark-red color lurk many thorns.” So Proverbs 5: “Her throat is more shiny than oil,” that is, “her most recent speech is bitter like wormwood.”