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that her husband is not one of the
rulers and for that reason she is slighted among the other women, and when
she sees that her husband is not much concerned about money and does not
fight and brawl in private lawsuits and in the public assembly, but takes
all such matters lightly, and when she observes that he is
self-absorbed1 in his thoughts and
neither regards nor disregards her overmuch,2 and in consequence of all this
laments and tells the boy that his father is too slack3
and no kind of a man, with all the other complaints
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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