Just Argument: I will therefore speak about the ancient education as it was.
Just Argument: when I, speaking justly, was in flower, and self-control was esteemed.
Just Argument: first of all, when a child has cried, nothing should be heard;
Just Argument: then to walk orderly in the streets to a cithara-player.
Just Speech: that the villagers be naked and together, and if it were to rain, that they be soaked.
965
Just Speech: and then again he used to teach a song beforehand to the two thighs not moving together,
Just Argument: either Pallas, the city-destroying, terrible, or a distant cry,
Just Argument: having tightened the harmony which our fathers handed down.
Just Argument: if one of them should mock or should bend someone's limb,
Just Argument: of what sort [are] these difficult-to-bend ones, which now [exist] concerning Phrynichus,
970
Just Argument: he was being rubbed while being struck, destroying many, just as the Muses.
Just Argument: when sitting in the wrestling school, one must throw the thigh forward.
Just Argument: that the children might show nothing harsh to those outside;
Just Argument: and then again, again, to lift up and to crush, and to provide beforehand
975
Just Argument: he does not leave an image for the lovers of youth.
Just Logos: No boy would have been anointed below the navel at that time, so that
Just Argument: dew and dust bloom upon the modest ones just as upon apples.
Just Argument: nor would I, having cultivated a soft voice, [speak] to the lover.
Just Argument: he was walking with his own eyes leading him,
980
Just Argument: nor was it lawful to pick up while dining and a head of radish,
Just Argument: nor would I steal from the elders, not even a sprig of celery,
Just Argument: nor to eat fish, nor to rub the soles of the feet, nor to hold the feet alternately.
Unjust Speech: truly ancient and god-fearing and full of cicadas.
Unjust Speech: both of Kakeidos and of Bouphontion.
985
