Although I have been angry with you, one misery One misery : — The old gentleman tells his son that he will be quite sufficiently punished for his faults by having one wife. It is either said as a joke in a bantering way, or else it means, that, what will be a great punishment to him, he must now reform his mode of life, for common decency sake and out of respect to his wife. , in fact, is more than enough for one man. CALLICLES Nay, rather, ’twere too little for him; for if he were to marry a hundred wives for his sins, it were too little. LESBONICUS But henceforth, in future, I will be steady.