plain, in winter it would catch the sunlight and in summer lie in
shade.[4] Then I showed her the women's apartments, separated from the
men's apartments by a bolted door,[5] whereby nothing from within
could be conveyed without clandestinely, nor children born and bred by
our domestics without our knowledge and consent[6]--no unimportant
matter, since, if the act of rearing children tends to make good
servants still more loyally disposed,[7] cohabiting but sharpens
ingenuity for mischief in the bad.

[3] See "Mem." III. viii. 8.

[4] See "Mem." ib. 9.

[5] "By bolts and bars." Lit. "a door fitted with a bolt-pin." See
Thuc. ii. 4; Aristoph. "Wasps," 200.

[6] Cf. (Aristot.) "Oecon." i. 5, {dei de kai exomereuein tais
teknopoiiais}.

[7] Lit. "since (you know) if the good sort of servant is rendered, as
a rule, better disposed when he becomes a father, the base,
through intermarrying, become only more ripe for mischief."

When we had gone over all the rooms (he continued), we at once set
about distribution our furniture[8] in classes; and we began (he said)
by collecting everything we use in offering sacrifice.[9] After this
we proceeded to set apart the ornaments and holiday attire of the
wife, and the husband's clothing both for festivals and war; then the
bedding used in the women's apartments, and the bedding used in the
men's apartments; then the women's shoes and sandals, and the shoes