therefore most justly chargeable with the burden, he might
challenge the other to assume the burden, or to make with him an
{antidosis} or exchange of property. Such a challenge, if
declined, was converted into a lawsuit, or came before a heliastic
court for trial." Gow, "Companion," xviii. "Athenian Finance." See
Dem. "Against Midias," 565, Kennedy, p. 117, and Appendix II. For
the various liturgies, Trierarchy, Choregy, etc., see "Pol. Ath."
i. 13 foll.

[5] Or, "the son of his father," it being customary at Athens to add
the patronymic, e.g. Xenophon son of Gryllus, Thucydides son of
Olorus, etc. See Herod. vi. 14, viii. 90. In official acts the
name of the deme was added, eg. Demosthenes son of Demosthenes of
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
fewest questions? or do you not think one should be satisfied, if at
marriage her whole experience consisted in knowing how to take the
wool and make a dress, and seeing how her mother's handmaidens had
their daily spinning-tasks assigned them? For (he added), as regards