m aetatem extendebant, non in latebrosis locis. 430

Unless you had arrived at the athletic grounds before
sunrise, it was no slight penalty the Gymnasium Director
imposed on you. When this had happened, this further trouble
was added, that pupil and teacher too were held to be
disgraced. There it was by running, wrestling, throwing the
spear and discus, boxing, ball, jumping, they used to get
their exercise, rather than by means of wenches, or kisses:
it was there they used to spend their lives, not in dark
dens of vice.

inde de hippodromo et palaestra ubi revenisses domum,
cincticulo praecinctus in sella apud magistrum adsideres
cum libro: cum legeres, si unam peccavisses syllabam,
fieret corium tam maculosum quam est nutricis pallium.

Then when you had returned home from the track and field,
all neat and trim you would sit on your chair before your
teacher with your book: and while you were reading, if you
had missed a single syllable, your hide would be made as
spotted as a nurse's gown.

_Mnes._

Propter me haec nunc meo sodali dici discrucior miser;
innocens suspicionem hanc sustinet causa mea.

(_aside_) It's torment, hang it, to have my chum coming in
for all this on my account; it's for my sake he's shouldering
this suspicion, poor innocent.

_Phil._

Alii, Lyde, nunc sunt mores.

(_soothingly_) The customs of to-day are different, Lydus.

_Lydus_

Id equidem ego certo scio.
nam olim populi prius honorem capiebat suffragio,
quam magistro desinebat esse dicto oboediens;
at nunc, prius quam septuennis est, si attingas eum manu, 440
extemplo puer paedagogo tabula disrumpit caput.

Indeed they are! I realize the truth of that. Why, in the
old days a young man would be holding office, by popular
vote, before he had ceased to hearken to his teacher's
precepts. But nowadays, before a youngster is seven years
old, if you lay a finger on him, he promptly takes his
writing tablet and smashes his tutor's head with it.

cum patrem adeas postulatum, puero sic dicit pater:
"noster esto, dum te poteris defensare iniuria."
provocatur paedagogus: "eho senex minimi preti,
ne attigas puerum istac causa, quando fecit strenue."[14] (445)
itur illinc iure dicto. hocine hic pacto potest (447)
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