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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: the patronymic, e.g. Xenophon son of Gryllus, Thucydides son of
Olorus, etc. See Herod. vi. 14, viii. 90. In official acts the
name of the deme was added, eg. Demosthenes son of Demosthenes of
Paiane; or of the tribe, at times. Cf. Thuc. viii. 69; Plat.
"Laws," vi. p. 753 B.
Ah! (said I), Ischomachus, that is just what I should like
particularly to learn from you. Did you yourself educate your wife to
be all that a wife should be, or when you received her from her father
and mother was she already a proficient well skilled to discharge the
duties appropriate to a wife?
Well skilled! (he replied). What proficiency was she likely to bring
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