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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: little conducive to modesty.[8] Whereas in Sparta Lycurgus was careful
so to blend the ages[9] that the younger men must benefit largely by
the experience of the elder--an education in itself, and the more so
since by custom of the country conversation at the common meal has
reference to the honourable acts which this man or that man may have
performed in relation to the state. The scene, in fact, but little
lends itself to the intrusion of violence or drunken riot; ugly speech
and ugly deeds alike are out of place. Amongst other good results
obtained through this out-door system of meals may be mentioned these:
There is the necessity of walking home when the meal is over, and a
consequent anxiety not to be caught tripping under the influence of
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