Political fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and other ancient Pythagoreans, preserved by Stobaeus; and also, ethical fragments of Hierocles ... preserved by the same author / Translated from the Greek. By Thomas Taylor.

  • Thomas Taylor
Date:
1822
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Credit: Political fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and other ancient Pythagoreans, preserved by Stobaeus; and also, ethical fragments of Hierocles ... preserved by the same author / Translated from the Greek. By Thomas Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and modesty. For a wife who is dear to her husband, and who truly perforins her duty to¬ wards him, is a [domestic] harmony, and loves the whole of her family, to which also she con¬ ciliates the benevolence of strangers. If, how¬ ever, she neither loves her husband nor her children, nor her servants, nor wishes to see any sacrifice preserved; then she becomes the leader of every kind of destruction, which she likewise prays for, as being an enemy, and also prays for the death of her husband, as being hostile to him, in order that she may be con¬ nected with other men ; and, in the last place, she hates whatever her husband loves. But it appears to me that a wife will be a [domestic] harmony, if she is full of prudence and mo¬ desty. For then she will not only love her hus¬ band, but also her children, her kindred, her servants, and the whole of her family, in w^hich possessions, friends, citizens, and strangers are contained. She will likewise adorn the bodies of these without any superfluous ornaments, and will both speak and hear such things only as are beautiful and good. It is also requisite that she should act conformably to her hus¬ band’s opinion in what pertains to their com¬ mon life, and be satisfied with those relatives and friends that meet with his approbation.