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48 Therefore the young men did not waste their time in the gambling-dens or with the flute-girls or in the kind of company in which they now spend their days,The same picture of degeneracy is found in Isoc. 15.287. Cf. Theopompus in Athen. 532d. but remained steadfastly in the pursuits to which they had been assigned, admiring and emulating those who excelled in these. And so strictly did they avoid the market-place that even when they were at times compelled to pass through it, they were seen to do this with great modesty and sobriety of manner.Cf. Aristoph. Cl. 991; Plat. Theaet. 173c-d.

49 To contradict one’s elders or to be impudent to themCf. Aristoph. Cl. 998. was then considered more reprehensible than it is nowadays to sin against one’s parents; and to eat or drink in a tavern was something which no one, not even an honest slave, would venture to do;The same expression is used in Isoc. 15.286. for they cultivated the manners of a gentleman, not those of a buffoon; and as for those who had a turn for jesting and playing the clown, whom we today speak of as clever wits, they were then looked upon as sorry fools.Cf. Isoc. 15.284.