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On noticing that his eldest son, Lamprocles, was out of humour with his mother, he said: Tell me, my boy, do you know that some men are called ungrateful?
Indeed I do, replied the young man.
Do you realise how they come to have this bad name?
I do; the word is used of those who do not show the gratitude that it is in their power to show for benefits received.
You take it, then, that the ungrateful are reckoned among the unjust?
Yes.
On noticing that his eldest son, Lamprocles, was out of humour with his mother, he said: Tell me, my boy, do you know that some men are called ungrateful?
Indeed I do, replied the young man.
Do you realise how they come to have this bad name?
I do; the word is used of those who do not show the gratitude that it is in their power to show for benefits received.
You take it, then, that the ungrateful are reckoned among the unjust?
Yes.
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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