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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: disaster in most cases."
Crit. Ought the husband or the wife to bear the blame of that?
Soc. If it goes ill with the sheep we blame the shepherd, as a rule,
or if a horse shows vice we throw the blame in general upon the rider.
But in the case of women, supposing the wife to have received
instruction from her husband and yet she delights in wrong-doing,[12]
it may be that the wife is justly held to blame; but supposing he has
never tried to teach her the first principles of "fair and noble"
conduct,[13] and finds her quite an ignoramus[14] in these matters,
surely the husband will be justly held to blame. But come now (he
added), we are all friends here; make a clean breast of it, and tell
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