For honour, worthily obtain’d (as for Example that of our Officers), is in its Nature a personal Thing, and incommunicable to any but...

They grow up in litters; if they put a foot on the ground, they are held up by helping hands on either side. We like it if they say...

Certain parents were sacrificing to the gods, that a son might be born to them. “But,” said he, “do you not sacrifice to ensure what...

Agesilaus (King of Sparta) was excessively fond of his children; and it is to him the story belongs, that when they were little ones, he...

Next to prowess in arms, it is regarded as the greatest proof of manly excellence, to be the father of many sons. Every year the king sends rich gifts to the man who can show the largest number: for they hold that number is strength. Their sons are carefully instructed from their fifth to their twentieth year, in three things alone – to ride, to draw the bow, and to speak the truth. Until their fifth year they are not allowed to come into the sight of their father, but pass t

Themistocles:

In ancient Sparta: