Sec. XX. I shall add a few remarks, and then bring my subject to a close. Before all things fathers must, by a good behaviour, set a good example to their sons, that, looking at their lives as a mirror, they may turn away from bad deeds and words. For those fathers who censure their sons' faults while they themselves commit the same, are really their own accusers, if they know it not, under their sons' name; and those who live a depraved life have no right to censure their slaves, far less their sons. And besides this they will become counsellors and teachers of their sons in wrongdoing; for where old men are shameless youths will of a certainty have no modesty. We must therefore take all pains to teach our sons self-control, emulating the conduct of Eurydice, who, though an Illyrian and more than a barbarian, to teach her sons educated herself though late in life, and her love to them is well depicted in the inscription which she offered to the Muses: "Eurydice of Hierapolis made this offering to the Muses, having conceived a vast love for knowledge. For when a mother with sons full-grown she learnt letters, the preservers of knowledge." To carry out all these precepts would be perhaps a visionary scheme; but to attain to many, though it would need a happy disposition and much care, is a thing possible to human nature.[43] [3] Euripides, "Here. Fur." 1261, 1262. [4] Euripides, "Hippol." 424, 425. [5] Cleophantus is the name given to this lad by other writers. [6] Compare Sophocles, "Oedipus Tyrannus," 112, 113. [7] The Thessalians were very pugnacious. Cf. Isocrates, "Oratio de Pace," p. 316. [Greek: ohi men (Thettaloi) sphisin autois haei polemousin]. [8] A proverbial expression among the ancients for earliest childhood. See Erasmus, "Adagia." [9] Plato, "Republic," ii. p. 429, E. [10] See Erasmus, "Adagia." [11] It is difficult to know how to render the word [Greek: paidagogos] in English. He was the slave who took the boy to school, and generally looked after him from his seventh year upward. Tutor or governor seems the best rendering. He had great power over the boy entrusted to him. [12] Plato, "Clitophon," p. 255, D. [13] Compare Diogenes Laertius, ii. 72. [14] Reading [Greek: koitophthorountes], the excellent emendation of Wyttenbach. [15] From the heathen standpoint of course, not from the Christian. Compare the advice of Cato in Horace's "Satires," Book i. Sat. ii. 31-35. It is a little difficult to know what Diogenes' precept really means. Is it that vice is universal? Like Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure," Act ii. Sc. ii. 5. "All sects, all ages smack of this vice." [16] He was asked by Polus, see Plato, "Gorgias," p. 290, F. [17] "Hippolytus," 986-989.