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restraint and the young: man will show himself in his
true colors.”

It was not long before this theory of education
was put to a severe test.. Demea arrived in a high
state of indignation: “You have heard this. about
fEschinus?” he said.

Micio. “ What has he done?”

Demea. “What has he done? He seems to have
neither shame nor fear. As for law, he supposes
himself to be above it. I am not talking of any old
story now, but of what he has just done.”

._ Mi. “What is that?”

De. “He broke down a man’s door, quashed into
his house, beat the owner and his household almost
to death, and-carried off a woman he was in love
with. Everybody is talking of it. I don’t know
how many mentioned it to me as I came. along.
How different from his brother! There is .a sober,
hard-working fellow. You never find him. doing
anything of this kind! And what I say of A¢schi-
nus, Micio, I say of you; it is you who are ruining
him by your foolish indulgence.” .

Mi. “1 don’t agree with you. There is no real
harm in a young man’s wildness. If you and I never
indulged in such things it was because we were too
poor. If you had any human feeling about you, you
would let your Ctesipho have his fling now while he
is young. If he puts it off till he is old, when he
has buried you, it will be ten times worse,” -