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Now do you really think it harder for you to listen to what she says than for actors when they abuse one another in a tragedy?
But an actor, I suppose, doesn’t think that a question put to him will lead to punishment, or that a threat means any harm: and so he makes light of it.
And why should you be annoyed? You know well that there is no malice in what your mother says to you; on the contrary, she wishes you to be blessed above all other beings — unless, indeed, you suppose that your mother is maliciously set against you?
Oh no, I don’t think that.
Then Socrates exclaimed:
Now do you really think it harder for you to listen to what she says than for actors when they abuse one another in a tragedy?
But an actor, I suppose, doesn’t think that a question put to him will lead to punishment, or that a threat means any harm: and so he makes light of it.
And why should you be annoyed? You know well that there is no malice in what your mother says to you; on the contrary, she wishes you to be blessed above all other beings — unless, indeed, you suppose that your mother is maliciously set against you?
Oh no, I don’t think that.
Then Socrates exclaimed:
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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