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A man whose slave had run away, on catching sight of the fugitive some time
later, ran after him ; but when the slave got ahead of him by taking refuge
in a treadmill, the master said, ‘Where else could I have wished to
find you rather than here?’
1 So then let the woman who, on
account of jealousy, is entering a writ of divorce, and is in a high
dudgeon, say to herself, ‘Where else would my rival like better to
see me, what would she rather have me do, than feel aggrieved with my
husband and quarrel with him and abandon my very home and chamber ?
’
1 A remark of the same tenor is attributed to Phocion by Plutarch, Moralia, 188 A, and Life of Phocion, chap. x. (p. 746 E).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. 2.
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