Apophthegmata Laconica

Plutarch

Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).

Areus, when some men commended, not their own wives, but certain wives of other men, said, By Heaven, there ought to be no random talk about fair and noble women, and their characters ought to be totally unknown save only to their consorts. [*](Cf.Moralia, 220 D and 242 E, infra; Thucydides, ii. 45.)