penditure; and, under a separate head, [11]
we stored away what we computed would be needed for the year. [12] For
in this way there is less chance of failing to note how the supplies are
likely to last to the end.

[8] "Movable property," "meubles."

[9] Holden cf. Plut. "De Curios." 515 E, {os gar Xenophon legei toi
Oikonomikois, k.t.l.}

[10] Cf. "Cyrop." VIII. ii. 5. See Becker, op. cit. p. 447.

[11] See Cic. ap. Col. who curiously mistranslates {dikha}.

[12] Schneider, etc., cf. Aristot. "Oecon." i. 6.

And so having arranged the different articles of furniture in classes,
we proceeded to convey them to their appropriate places. That done, we
directed our attention to the various articles needed by our domestics
for daily use, such as implements or utensils for making bread, cooking
relishes, spinning wool, and anything else of the same sort. These
we consigned to the care of those who would have to use them, first
pointing out where they must stow them, and enjoining on them to return
them safe and sound when done with.

As to the other things which we should only use on feast-days, or
for the entertainment of guests, or on other like occasions at long
intervals, we delivered them one and all to our housekeeper. Having
pointed out to her their proper places, and having numbered and
registered [13] the several sets of articles, we explained that it was
her business to give out each thing as required; to recollect to whom
she gave them; and when she got them back, to restore them severally to
the places from which she took them. In appointing our housekeeper, we
had taken every pains to discover some one on whose self-restraint we
might depend, not only in the matters of food and wine and sleep, but
also in her intercourse with men. She must besides, to please us, be
gifted with no ordinary memory. She must have sufficient forethought not
to incur displeasure through neglect of our interests. It must be her
object to gratify us in this or that, and in return to win esteem and
honour at our hands. We set ourselves to teach and train her to feel a
kindly disposition towards us, by allowing her to share our joys in
the day of gladness, or, if aught unkind befell us, by inviting her
to sympathise in our sorrow. We sought to rouse in her a zeal for our
interests, an eagerness to promote the increase of our estate, by
making her intelligent of its affairs, and by giving her a share in our
successes. We