9.2
And how did you arrange things for her, Ischomachus? I asked. Why, I decided first to show her the possibilities of our house. For it contains few elaborate decorations, Socrates; but the rooms are designed simply with the object of providing as convenient receptacles as possible for the things that are to fill them, and thus each room invited just what was suited to it.
9.3
Thus the store-room by the security of its position called for the most valuable blankets and utensils, the dry covered rooms for the corn, the cool for the wine, the well-lit for those works of art and vessels that need light.
9.4
I showed her decorated living-rooms for the family that are cool in summer and warm in winter.Mem. III. viii. 9. I showed her that the whole house fronts south, so that it was obvious that it is sunny in winter and shady in summer.
9.5
I showed her the women’s quarters too, separated by a bolted door from the men’s, so that nothing which ought not to be moved may be taken out, and that the servants may not breed without our leave. For honest servants generally prove more loyal if they have a family; but rogues, if they live in wedlock, become all the more prone to mischief.