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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    63 And she will conceive those things to be plea¬ sant and disagreeable which are thought to be so by her husband, unless she is entirely des¬ titute of harmony. FROM THE TREATISE OF PERICTYONE ON THE HARMONY OF A WOMAN*. Parents ought not to be injured either in word or deed ; but it is requisite to be obedi¬ ent to them, whether their rank in life is small or great. And in every allotted condition of soul and body, and of external circumstances, in peace, also, and war, in health [and sick¬ ness f], in riches and in poverty, in renown and ignominy, and whether they are of the same class with most of the community, or are ma¬ gistrates, it is necessary to be present with, and never to forsake them, and almost to sub¬ mit to them even when they are insane. For such conduct will be wisely and cheerfully adopted by those that are pious. But he who despises his parents will, both among the living * In this extract no mention whatever is made of the har¬ mony of a woman; for it wholly consists of the duty of cliil- . dren to their parents. t καί νοσώ is omitted in the original, but ought, as it ap¬ pears to me, to be inserted.