brother where carnal appetite is in abeyance.

[24] See Xen. "Symp." viii. 35; Plut. "Lycurg." 18.

That this, however, which is the fact, should be scarcely credited in
some quarters does not surprise me, seeing that in many states the
laws[25] do not oppose the desires in question.

[25] I.e. "law and custom."

I have now described the two chief methods of education in vogue; that
is to say, the Lacedaemonian as contrasted with that of the rest of
Hellas, and I leave it to the judgment of him whom it may concern,
which of the two has prodcued the finer type of men. And by finer I
mean the better disciplined, the more modest and reverential, and, in
matters where self-restraint is a virtue, the more continent.



III

Coming to the critical period at which a boy ceases to be a boy and
becomes a youth,[1] we find that it is just then that the rest of the
world proceed to emancipate their children from the private tutor and
the schoolmaster, and, without substituting any further ruler, are
content to launch them into absolute independence.

[1] {eis to meirakiousthai}, "with reference to hobbledehoy-hood."
Cobet erases the phrase as post-Xenophontine.