[465c]
“But I hesitate, so unseemly1 are they, even to mention the pettiest troubles of which they
would be rid, the flatterings2 of the rich, the
embarrassments and pains of the poor in the bringing-up of their children
and the procuring of money for the necessities of life for their households,
the borrowings, the repudiations, all the devices with which they acquire
what they deposit with wives and servitors to husband,3 and all the indignities that
they endure in such matters, which are obvious and
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