your wife?

[12] Cf. "Horsemanship," vi. 5, of a horse "to show vice."

[13] Or, "things beautiful and of good report."

[14] Al. "has treated her as a dunce, devoid of this high knowledge."

Crit. There is no one.

Soc. And is there any one with whom you are less in the habit of
conversing than with your wife?

Crit. Not many, I am forced to admit.

Soc. And when you married her she was quite young, a mere girl--at an
age when, as far as seeing and hearing go, she had the smallest
acquaintance with the outer world?

Crit. Certainly.

Soc. Then would it not be more astonishing that she should have real
knowledge how to speak and act than that she should go altogether
astray?

Crit. But let me ask you a question, Socrates: have those happy
husbands, you tell us of, who are blessed with good wives educated
them themselves?

Soc. There is nothing like investigation. I will introduce you to