Verres, who had a son that had been anything but virtuous when a boy, rebuked Cicero for effeminacy and called him a corrupter of youth. ‘Don't you know,’ said Cicero, ‘that it is proper for children to be scolded behind the doors of their own home ?’ 1
1 Ibid. chap. vii. (864 C).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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