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İngilizce İngilizce Yunanca

48 In regard to love of finery, I beg, Eurydice, that you will read and try to remember what was written to Aristylla by Timoxena Plutarch’s wife presumably; who Aristylla was we do not know.; and as for you, Pollianus, you must not think that your wife will refrain from immoderate display and extravagance if she sees that you do not despise these things in others, but, on the contrary, find delight in gilded drinking-cups, pictured walls, trappings for mules, and showy neckbands for horses. For it is impossible to expel extravagance from the wife’s part of the house when it has free range amid the men’s rooms.