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a radish or a sprig of parsley before his elders, or
showed a taste for dainty dishes.”
Unjust. ‘What old-fashioned nonsense!”

Just. “Ah, but that is the way I bred the men
who conquered at Marathon! Choose me, my young
friend, and you will learn to be ashamed of what is
base, and to blush if they banter you, and to rise up
from your seat when your elders come in, and to
mould yourself after the model of honour, keeping
yourself from bad companions, and never contradict-
ing your father, or making game of the nest in which
you were hatched.”

Unjust. “Yes; and they'll say that you're tied to
your mother’s apron-strings.”’

Fust. “In the ring of the wrestlers all blooming and strong

You will stand, nor chatter away to the throng

That meets in the market your far-fetched conceits ;

To the Academeia! you'll often repair,

And you'll run in the shade of the olive-trees there,
With a chaplet of reed on your head, while a friend

As honest as you on your steps shall attend;

In the joy of a leisure unblamed, in the time

Of the spring, when the plane whispers soft to the lime.

Yes, young man, if you want a chest well filled out,
broad shoulders, a clear complexion, and a short
tongue, come to me. Go to my adversary, and fol-
low in the ways that are fashionable now, and your

1 The grove of Academus, in the outskirts of Athens, where there

was a gymnasium, afterwards celebrated as the place where Plato and
this successors taught.