gunaikas e tois andrasi kai pasan ep' ekeinois ten oikian
gegonenai kai tous paidas adelous einai opoteron tugkhanousin
ontes, ton andron e ton moikhon. anth' on o ton nomon titheis
thanaton autois epoiese ten zemian}. Cf. "Cyrop." III. i. 39;
"Symp." viii. 20; Plut. "Sol." xxiii., {olos de pleisten ekhein
atopian oi peri ton gunaikon nomoi to Soloni dokousi. moikhon men
gar anelein tio labonti dedoken, ean d' arpase tis eleutheran
gunaika kai biasetai zemian ekaton drakhmas etaxe' kan proagogeue
drakhmas aikosi, plen osai pephasmenos polountai, legon de tas
etairas. autai gar emphanos phoitosi pros tous didontas}, "Solon's
laws in general about women are his strangest, for he permitted
any one to kill an adulterer that found him in the act; but if any
one forced a free woman, a hundred drachmas was the fine; if he
enticed her, twenty;--except those that sell themselves openly,
that is, harlots, who go openly to those that hire them" (Clough,
i. p. 190).

(7) Or, "fall a victim to passion through some calamity," "commit a
breach of chastity." Cf. Aristot. "H. A." VII. i. 9.

(8) Or, "if true affection still retain its virgin purity." As to this
extraordinary passage, see Hartman, op. cit. p. 242 foll.

So sovereign a good do I, for my part, esteem it to be loved, that I do
verily believe spontaneous blessings are outpoured from gods and men on
one so favoured.

This is that choice possession which, beyond all others, the monarch is
deprived of.

But if you require further evidence that what I say is true, look at the
matter thus: No friendship, I presume, is sounder than that which binds
parents to their children and children to their parents, brothers and
sisters to each other, (9) wives to husbands, comrade to comrade.

(9) Or, "brothers to brothers."

If, then, you will but thoughtfully consider it, you will discover it is
the ordinary person who is chiefly blest in these relations. (10) While
of tyrants, many have been murderers of their own children, many by
their children murdered. Many brothers have been murderers of one
another in contest for the crown; (11) many a monarch has been done to
death by the wife of his bosom, (12) or even by his own familiar friend,
by him of whose affection he was proudest. (13)

(10) Or, "that these more obvious affections are the sanctities of
private life."

(11) Or, "have caught at the throa