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So Peisistratus, Cf. Moralia, 189 d; related also of Cato Maior in Plutarch’s Life, xxiv. (351 b). marrying for a second time when his sons were full grown, said that because he considered them to be honourable and good he wished to become the father of more children like them. Excellent and just sons will not only love each other the more because of their parents, but will also love their parents the more because of each other; so will they always both think and say that, though they owe their parents gratitude for many favours, it is most of all for their brothers that they owe it,Paraphrased by Stobaeus, vol. iv. p. 658 ed. Hense. since these are truly the most precious and delightful of all the possessions they have received from them. Well indeed has Homer Od., xvi. 117. also depicted Telemachus as reckoning his brotherless condition a misfortune: The son of Cronus thus has doomed our race To have one son alone. But Hesiod Works and Days, 376; cf. the Commentarii in Hesiodum, 37 (Bernardakis, vol. vii. p. 70). does not well in advising an only son to inherit his father’s estate - and that too when he was himself a pupil of the Muses, Theogony, 22. who, in fact, received this nameA fanciful derivation: Μοῦσαιfrom ὁμοῦ οὖσαι. just because they were always together (homou ousas) in concord and sisterly affection.Paraphrased by Stobaeus, vol. iv. p. 659 ed. Hense.
