Thereupon Solon said that in his opinion the best household was ‘_that in which the resources are acquired without dishonesty, [Sidenote: D] watched over without distrust, and expended without repentance_‘. According to Bias it was ‘_that inside which the master behaves for his own sake as well as he does outside for the law’s sake_‘. According to Thales, ‘_that in which the master can find most time to himself_‘. According to Cleobulus, ‘_where the master has more who love than fear him_.’ Pittacus would have it that the best house is ‘_that which wants no luxury and lacks no necessity_‘. Chilon’s view was that the house should be ‘_as like as possible to a state ruled by a king_‘, and he went on to observe that when some one urged Lycurgus to establish a republic at Sparta, he [Sidenote: E] answered: ‘You begin by creating a republic at home.’ This topic also having been dealt with, Eumetis left the room in company with Melissa. Periander then pledged Chilon in a capacious goblet, and Chilon in turn pledged Bias. At this Ardalus got up, and, addressing Aesop, said: ‘Perhaps you will be good enough to pass yonder cup on to us, seeing that these gentlemen are passing theirs to each other, as if it were a Bathycles’s goblet,[33] and are giving no one else a turn.’ ‘Nay,’ [Sidenote: F] replied Aesop, ‘there is to be nothing democratic about this cup either, for Solon has been keeping it all to himself for quite an age.’ Thereupon Pittacus, addressing Mnesiphilus, asked why Solon, by not drinking, was testifying against the verses in which he had written _Now do I welcome the tasks of the Cyprus-born goddess and Bacchus, And tasks of the Muses that bring cheer to the heart of mankind._