control of appetite and self-indulgence,[9] she had received the
soundest education, and that I take to be the most important matter in
the bringing-up of man or woman.

[6] See Aristot. "Pol." vii. 16. 1335(a). See Newman, op. cit. i. 170
foll.

[7] Or, "surveillance." See "Pol. Lac." i. 3.

[8] Reading {eroito}; or if with Sauppe after Cobet, {eroin}, transl.
"talk as little as possible."

[9] Al. "in reference to culinary matters." See Mahaffy, "Social Life
in Greece," p. 276.

Then all else (said I) you taught your wife yourself, Ischomachus,
until you had made her capable of attending carefully to her appointed
duties?

That did I not (replied he) until I had offered sacrifice, and prayed
that I might teach and she might learn all that could conduce to the
happiness of us twain.

Soc. And did your wife join in sacrifice and prayer to that effect?

Isch. Most certainly, with many a vow registered to heaven to become
all she ought to be; and her whole manner showed that she would not be
neglectful of what was taught her.[10]

[10] Or, "giving plain proof that, if the teaching failed, it should