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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: Paiane; or of the tribe, at times. Cf. Thuc. viii. 69; Plat.
"Laws," vi. p. 753 B.
Ah! (said I), Ischomachus, that is just what I should like
particularly to learn from you. Did you yourself educate your wife to
be all that a wife should be, or when you received her from her father
and mother was she already a proficient well skilled to discharge the
duties appropriate to a wife?
Well skilled! (he replied). What proficiency was she likely to bring
with her, when she was not quite fifteen[6] at the time she wedded me,
and during the whole prior period of her life had been most carefully
brought up[7] to see and hear as little as possible, and to ask[8] the
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