lie with her on the ground, declaring that he had never been in such a state of rapture before, even when they first met one another
‘Without the knowledge of their parents23;’
The indecent tale of Ares and Aphrodite. or that other tale of how Hephaestus, because of similar goings on, cast a chain around Ares and Aphrodite24?
Indeed, he said, I am strongly of opinion that they ought not to hear that sort of thing.
The opposite strain of endurance. But any deeds of endurance which are done or told by famous men, these they ought to see and hear; as, for example, what is said in the verses,
‘He smote his breast, and thus reproached his heart,
Endure, my heart; far worse hast thou endured25!’
Certainly, he said.
In the next place, we must not