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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: Mahaffy, "Old Greek Life," p. 31.
"And so with you too, my wife, if you would avoid this confusion, if
you would fain know how to administer our goods, so as to lay your
finger readily on this or that as you may need, or if I ask you for
anything, graciously to give it me: let us, I say, select and
assign[12] the appropriate place for each set of things. This shall be
the place where we will put the things; and we will instruct the
housekeeper that she is to take them out thence, and mind to put them
back again there; and in this way we shall know whether they are safe
or not. If anything is gone, the gaping space will cry out as if it
asked for something back.[13] The mere look and aspect of things will
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