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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...in English for the padagogua. See the Translation of Quintilian, i. 1. 8, and note. 1 2vfif3ovXtviiv rbv apptva. For rbv afipiva Schneider would read riv tiptva (see sect. 11), making the sense, "that the full-grown young man, or chief of any company of youths, should exhort those under him, ' An. 2viiJ3ovXiinv is pracipere, hortari. exertion, should it be imposed on them, on the same quantity of provisions, and would be less desirous of sauces, more easily satisfied with any kind of food, and pass their lives in greater health. He also considered that the fare which rendered the body slender would be more conducive to increasing its stature, than that which expanded it with nutriment. 6. Yet that the boys might not suffer too much from hunger, Lycurgus, though he did not allow them to take what they wanted without trouble, gave them liberty to steal certain things to relieve the cravings of nature; and he made it honourable to steal as many cheeses as possible.1 7. That he did not give them leave to form schemes for getting food because he was at a loss what to allot them, I suppose no one is ignorant; as it is evident that he who designs to steal must be wakeful during the night, and use deceit, and lay plots; and, if he would gain anything of consequence, must employ spies. All these things, therefore, it is plain that he taught the children from a desire to render them more dexterous in securing provisions, and better qualified for warfare. s. Some one may say, "Why, then, if he thought it honourable to steal, did he inflict a great number of stripes on him who was caught in the fact?" I answer, that in other things which men teach, they punish him who does not follow his instructions properly; and that the Lacedaemonians accordingly punis...