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with which women1 nag2 in such cases.”
“Many indeed,” said Adeimantus, “and after
their kind.3”
“You are aware, then,” said I, “that the very
house-slaves of such men, if they are loyal and friendly, privately say the
same sort of things to the sons, and if they observe a debtor or any other
wrongdoer whom the father does not prosecute, they urge the boy to punish
all such when he grows to manhood
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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