Keep pelting me with roses!!
You’d hit your father?
Yes, and by the gods I’ll now demonstrate how I was right to hit you.
You total wretch, how can it be right to strike one’s father?
I'll prove that to you—and win the argument.
You’ll beat me on this point?
Indeed, I will. It’s easy. So of the two arguments choose which one you want.
What two arguments?
The Better or the Worse.
By god, my lad, I really did have you taught to argue against what’s just, if you succeed in this— and make the case it’s fine and justified for a father to be beaten by his son.
Well, I think I’ll manage to convince you,
so that once you’ve heard my arguments, you won’t say a word.
Well, to tell the truth, I do want to hear what you have to say.
You’ve some work to do, old man. Think how to get the upper hand. He’s got something he thinks will work, or he’d not act like such a jerk. There’s something makes him confident— his arrogance is evident.
Keep pelting me with roses!!
You’d hit your father?
Yes, and by the gods I’ll now demonstrate how I was right to hit you.
You total wretch, how can it be right to strike one’s father?
I'll prove that to you—and win the argument.
You’ll beat me on this point?
Indeed, I will. It’s easy. So of the two arguments choose which one you want.
What two arguments?
The Better or the Worse.
By god, my lad, I really did have you taught to argue against what’s just, if you succeed in this— and make the case it’s fine and justified for a father to be beaten by his son.
Well, I think I’ll manage to convince you,
so that once you’ve heard my arguments, you won’t say a word.
Well, to tell the truth, I do want to hear what you have to say.
You’ve some work to do, old man. Think how to get the upper hand. He’s got something he thinks will work, or he’d not act like such a jerk. There’s something makes him confident— his arrogance is evident.
Frederick William Hall (1865–1948) was a classical scholar and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Together with William Martin Geldart, he produced the Oxford Classical Text of several authors. Hall was a careful editor known for his thorough collation of manuscripts and his conservative approach to textual criticism.
The Hall–Geldart editions in the Oxford Classical Texts series provide reliable critical texts with selective apparatus criticus. The OCT series, established in 1894 as the Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, aims to present the best available Greek and Latin texts in a format suitable for both scholarly use and teaching. Each volume provides a clean text with the most significant manuscript variants recorded at the foot of each page.
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