Autobulus
AUTOB. However, said Protogenes, he has not hinted to us in the least the hazard we run of inverting absurdly and ridiculously the counsel of Hesiod, whose words are these: Take to thy home a woman for thy bride When in the ripeness of thy manhood’s pride: Thrice ten thy sum of years, the nuptial prime; Nor far fall short, nor far exceed the time. Four years the ripening virgin should consume, And wed the fifth of her expanded bloom.Hesiod, Works and Days, 696, translated by Elton.
