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Stichus, or The Parasite Rebuffed (116-129)

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How is the woman most easily distinguished, who is of a good disposition?
PHILUMENA
When she, who has the power of doing ill, refrains from doing so.
ANTIPHO
Not bad that. (To PAMPHILA.) Come, say you, which choice is the preferable, to marry a maiden or a widow?
PAMPHILA
So far as my skill extends,
of many evils[*], that which is the least evil, the same is the least an evil.
He that can avoid the women, let him avoid them,
so that each day he takes care, the day before, not to do that which, the day after, he may regret.
ANTIPHO
What sort of woman, pray, seems to you by far the wisest?
PHILUMENA
She who, when affairs are prosperous, shall still be able to know herself,
and who with equanimity can endure it to be worse with her than it has been.
ANTIPHO
By my troth, in merry mood have I been trying the bent of your dispositions. But ’tis this for which I am come to you, and for which I wished to meet you both. My friends are advising me to the effect that I should remove you hence to my own house.
PAMPHILA
But still, we, whose interests are concerned, are advising you quite otherwise.

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