Ambrose of Milan : Now, if you will consider it well, that which nature herself abhors must be incongruous. For why do you not wish to be thought a man, seeing that you are born such? why do you assume an appearance which is foreign to you? why do you play the woman, or you, O woman, the man? Nature clothes each sex in their proper raiment. Moreover in men and women, habits, complexion, gestures, gait, strength and voice are all different. — Letters 61-70 Augustine of Hippo : The objects of the man will not be on the woman. It is about the warlike objects, that is to say, the weapons, as some translators have already translated. — QUESTIONS ON DEUTERONOMY, Q. 32 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)