IV. Sh Dee
THE BROTHERS.
[From MENANDER. Translated by TERENCE. }

Tur two brothers Demea and Micio were men of
very different tempers. Micio was an easy-going
person, self-indulgent and good-natured, living an
idle life in the city; Demea was hard-working, fru-
gal, and severe, allowing himself little. pleasure, and
not expecting others, to take it. Demea was mar-
ried, and had two sons, Ctesipho and Aéschinus.
Ctesipho lived at home, and was supposed to emu-
late the virtues of his father ; ZEschinus had been
adopted by his uncle Micio, who treated him with
the utmost indulgence. The old man’s only thought
was to make his nephew love and trust him. ‘Other
young men,” he would say to himself, “keep secrets
from their fathers; I am sure that “éschinus will
never do so, for the simple reason that I never
find fault with him. My brother,’ he went on,
“doesn’t approve of this method, and accuses me of
spoiling the yeung man. He pursues a quite differ-
ent plan with Ctesipho, and, in my judgment, is far
too severe. I am convinced that the obedience that
is rendered for fear is worthless. Take away the

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