There is no animal more invincible than a woman, nor fire either, nor any wildcat so ruthless.

In keeping with Aristophanic comedy, the line trades in hyperbole and comic comparison: “woman” is set against fearsome forces (fire, wildcats) to stress an idea of relentless determination. Read straight, it can sound like praise of women’s resilience and tactical strength; read within Old Comedy’s satiric register, it can also function as a joking, anxious male fantasy about women as unstoppable adversaries. Either way, the emphasis is on invincibility and ruthlessness—qualities that, in Aristophanes, often become funny precisely because they invert or exaggerate conventional gender expectations for the stage.