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When a boy was punished by anybody, if he
told his father, it was a disgrace for his father, upon
hearing this, not to give him another beating; for
they had confidence one in another, as the result of
their ancestral discipline, that no one had ordered
their children to do anything disgraceful.1
1 Cf. Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta, 6. 2.
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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