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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: But in the case of women, supposing the wife to have received
instruction from her husband and yet she delights in wrong-doing,[12]
it may be that the wife is justly held to blame; but supposing he has
never tried to teach her the first principles of "fair and noble"
conduct,[13] and finds her quite an ignoramus[14] in these matters,
surely the husband will be justly held to blame. But come now (he
added), we are all friends here; make a clean breast of it, and tell
us, Critobulus, the plain unvarnished truth: Is there an one to whom
you are more in the habit of entrusting matters of importance than to
your wife?
[12] Cf. "Horsemanship," vi. 5, of a horse "to show vice."
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