Homes and health:

With a view to 30
well-being and health, the house ought to be airy in
summer and sunny in winter. This would be best secured
if it faces north and is not as wide as it is long.

Attend to everything yourself

no one looks after the property of
others as well as he looks after his own, so that, as far as
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Acquire wealth, and guard it!

“A slaves reward is his food”

Woman is more prone to fear than men

Work, punishment and food — to slaves

Three things make up
the life of a slave, work, punishment, and food.

Freemen do not drink wine:

since the drinking of wine makes even freemen inso
lent, and many nations even of freemen abstain therefrom
(the Carthaginians, for instance, when they are on military
service), it is clear that wine ought never to be given to
35 slaves, or at any rate very seldom.

Slaves: overseer and worker

Sex: man should be content with it or without it

Man: well constituted for outdoor activities

Aristotle — Oeconomia

In the performance of work, she made one sex able
to lead a sedentary life and not strong enough to endure
exposure, the other less adapted for quiet pursuits but well 5
constituted for outdoor activities ; and in relation to offspring
she has made both share in the procreation of children, but
each render its peculiar service towards them, the woman by
nurturing, the man by educating them.