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In the same vein Varro also said in the Menippean Satire Varro's Menippean Satires, in 150 books, based to some extent on the Speudoge/loion of Menippus, a Cynic philosopher of the third century B.C., treated in a mixture of prose and verse a great variety of moral and serious topics in a playful and sometimes jocose manner. For other titles see Index under (M.) Terentius Varro, and for the fragments, Bücheler's Petronius, 3d. ed., Berlin, 1882, pp. 161 ff. which he entitled On the Duty of a Husband: Fr 83, Bücheler. A wife's faults must be either put down or put up with. He who puts down her faults, makes his wife more agreeable; he who puts up with them, improves himself. Varro contrasted the two words tollere and ferre very cleverly, For a similar play on two meanings of tollere, cf. Suet. Aug. xii. to be sure, but he obviously uses tollere in the sense of correct. It is evident too that Varro thought that if a fault of that kind in a wife cannot be corrected, it should be tolerated, in so far of course as a man may endure it honourably; for faults are less serious than crimes.
