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When the orator Gorgias read to the Greeks at Olympia a speech about
concord,1 Melanthius said, ‘This fellow is giving us advice about
concord, and yet in his own household he has not prevailed upon himself,
his wife, and maidservant, three persons only, to live in
concord.’ For there was, apparently, some love on Gorgias's part
and jealousy on the wife's part towards the girl. A man therefore ought to
have his household well harmonized who is going to harmonize State, Forum,
and friends. For it is much more likely that the sins of women rather than
sins against women will go unnoticed by most people.
1 Cf. Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ii. pp. 248-9 (Gorgias, B 7-8).
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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