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İngilizce İngilizce Yunanca

13 Cato expelled from the Senate The story is told with more humorous details by Plutarch in his Life of Cato Major, chap. xvii. (p. 346 c). a man who kissed his own wife in the presence of his daughter. This perhaps was a little severe. But if it is a disgrace (as it is) for man and wife to caress and kiss and embrace in the presence of others, is it not more of a disgrace to air their recriminations and disagreements before others, and, granting that his intimacies and pleasures with his wife should be carried on in secret, to indulge in admonition, faultfinding, and plain speaking in the open and without reserve?