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Areus, when some men commended, not their own wives, but certain wives of other men, said, ‘By Heaven, there ought to be no random talk about fair and noble women, and their characters ought to be totally unknown save only to their consorts.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 220 D and 242 E, infra; Thucydides, ii. 45.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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