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  1 1 |        procreation and education of children, both male and female; the
  2 1 |             should play at building children’s houses; he who is to be
  3 1 |             endeavour to direct the children’s inclinations and pleasures,
  4 2 |            the first perceptions of children, and I say that they are
  5 2 |        first instincts of virtue in children;—when pleasure, and friendship,
  6 2 |              or words, to the young children of any well–conditioned
  7 2 |             Athenian. If very small children are to determine the question,
  8 2 |         course.~Athenian. The older children will be advocates of comedy;
  9 2 |           young and tender souls of children, reciting in their strains
 10 2 |            sacred choir composed of children, which is to sing lustily
 11 2 |             woman, is minded to get children. There are numberless other
 12 3 |           gives law to his wife and children, and they do not busy themselves
 13 3 |          naturally stamp upon their children, and upon their children’
 14 3 |            children, and upon their children’s children, their own likings;
 15 3 |           and upon their children’s children, their own likings; and,
 16 3 |      entrusted the education of his children to the women; and they brought
 17 4 |        which is the natural gift of children and animals, of whom some
 18 4 |       parents ought to govern their children, and the elder the younger,
 19 4 |        ruder method of cure; and as children ask the doctor to be gentle
 20 4 |             all states the birth of children goes back to the connection
 21 4 |        immortal, because they leave children’s children behind them,
 22 4 |       because they leave children’s children behind them, and partake
 23 4 |             will not have a wife or children, is impiety. He who obeys
 24 5 |          riches for the sake of his children, in order that he may leave
 25 5 |             then, bequeath to their children not a heap of riches, but
 26 5 |          wane: so that, whether his children or friends are alive or
 27 5 |         this communion of women and children and of property, in which
 28 5 |             her more carefully than children do their mother. For she
 29 5 |            lot leave the one of his children who is his best beloved,
 30 5 |       inheritance; but of his other children, if he have more than one,
 31 5 |          those citizens who have no children and are disposed to receive
 32 5 |           individuals have too many children, male or female, or too
 33 5 |        moderate limit, and to beget children in accordance with our ordinances,
 34 6 |           fifty years old, and have children lawfully begotten, both
 35 6 |           to allow the education of children to become a secondary or
 36 6 |     suitable for the procreation of children, let him marry if he be
 37 6 |             the equability of their children’s disposition to be of more
 38 6 |   immortality, and leave behind him children’s children to be the servants
 39 6 |         leave behind him children’s children to be the servants of God
 40 6 |         they ought not to begetting children when their bodies are dissipated
 41 6 |    especially while he is begetting children, ought to take care and
 42 6 |            offspring, and he begets children in every way inferior. And
 43 6 |            himself and bring up his children, going away from his father
 44 6 |            shall beget and bring up children, handing on the torch of
 45 6 |         year after marriage, before children are born, will follow next
 46 6 |            us speak of the birth of children, and after their birth of
 47 6 |           what way they shall beget children, threatening them, if they
 48 6 |            and fairest specimens of children which they can. Now all
 49 6 |             and to the begetting of children, and the bride in like manner
 50 6 | particularly at the time when their children are not yet born. And let
 51 6 |             those who are begetting children, disregarding the ordinances
 52 6 |     performed. Let the begetting of children and the supervision of those
 53 6 |             if any continue without children up to this time, let them
 54 6 |    thanksgivings after the birth of children; and if he go, let any one
 55 6 |      themselves have done begetting children according to the law, a
 56 6 |             who are still begetting children, let the same penalties
 57 6 |            shall have brought forth children up to fifty years of age;
 58 7 |          BOOK VII~And now, assuming children of both sexes to have been
 59 7 |           to be always carrying the children somewhere or other, either
 60 7 |        suited to the souls of young children, in the same manner in which
 61 7 |         mothers want their restless children to go to sleep they do not
 62 7 |           the Bacchantes and of the children is an emotion of fear, which
 63 7 |             be desired, sending the children to sleep, and making the
 64 7 |         inauspicious signs by which children show what they love and
 65 7 |          the case of the free–born. Children at that age have certain
 66 7 |         when they meet. And all the children who are between the ages
 67 7 |          nurses are to see that the children behave properly and orderly—
 68 7 |       nursing and amusements of the children, and the men superintending
 69 7 |          are ordered with a view to children having the same plays, and
 70 7 |              that when the plays of children are altered they are merely
 71 7 |          not considering that these children who make innovations in
 72 7 |         from the last generation of children, and, being different, will
 73 7 |           the art of music, and the children shall come not only if their
 74 7 |           household and bringing up children, in which they will observe
 75 7 |            nor as long as women and children and houses and all other
 76 7 |         without a shepherd, nor can children be left without tutors,
 77 7 |         care of the training of our children, directing their natures,
 78 7 |           to harangue our women and children, and the common people,
 79 7 |        invented for the use of mere children, which they learn as a pleasure
 80 7 |             education of very young children there were things, as we
 81 8 |     including their wives and their children, when the magistrates determine
 82 8 |          for their lives, and their children, and their property, and
 83 8 |       slaves and freemen, women and children, throughout the city:—that
 84 8 |          intercourse of parents and children—such a law, extending to
 85 8 |          procreation and nurture of children, and for education, and
 86 8 |          shall take effect. For the children of the metics, being artisans,
 87 9 |           others, who were also the children of divine parents, but that
 88 9 |            of the land. But let his children and family, if they avoid
 89 9 |            not to be visited on the children, except in the case of some
 90 9 |             result in the errors of children and old men; and these he
 91 9 |        shall never afterwards beget children together, or live under
 92 9 |            in sacred rites with his children, neither let him sit at
 93 9 |         their brethren, or of their children.~And he who is disobedient
 94 9 |           some time or other by his children—if a mother, he shall of
 95 9 |             mother, or brethren, or children, of life voluntarily and
 96 9 |             his father or mother or children or brethren or wife who
 97 9 |              and have charge of the children as orphans. If their sons
 98 9 |            such a misfortune has no children, the kindred of the exiled
 99 9 |           either sex, including the children of cousins, whether on the
100 9 |             wounding are brought by children against their parents, those
101 9 |          sixty years of age, having children of their own, not adopted,
102 9 |            appointed in the case of children suing their parents; and
103 9 |            than himself, who has no children, whether he be an old man
104 10|          reference to the duties of children to their parents, I cannot
105 10|            and sounds delightful to children—and their parents during
106 10|      earnestness on behalf of their children and of themselves, and with
107 10|       growing old and leaving their children’s children in high offices,
108 10|            leaving their children’s children in high offices, and their
109 10|             if he leaves behind him children who are fit to be citizens,
110 11|            is careless about having children and regardless of the legislator,
111 11|        spring, and men of women and children, and rulers of their subjects;
112 11|          and if he gives any of his children to be adopted by another
113 11|              If the testator has no children at all, he may select and
114 11|       willing to take charge of the children, shall be recognized according
115 11|          and brothers’ and sisters’ children, and first the males shall
116 11|    grandchildren of a grandfather’s children, the maiden may choose with
117 11|      intestate. And if a man has no children, either male or female,
118 11|             money.~Thus will orphan children have a second birth. After
119 11|             both to them and to the children’s own guardians a suitable
120 11|          especial care of their own children, and are friendly to those
121 11|            own good and that of his children. He who obeys the tale which
122 11|     examples of the manner in which children of freemen should be brought
123 11|            bringing up of their own children, and of the care of their
124 11|          natures. Those who have no children, or only a few, at the time
125 11|          view to the procreation of children; but those who have a sufficient
126 11|         have a sufficient number of children should separate and marry
127 11|            If a woman dies, leaving children, male or female, the law
128 11|             husband to bring up the children without introducing into
129 11|       stepmother. But if he have no children, then he shall be compelled
130 11|      leaving a sufficient number of children, the mother of his children
131 11|         children, the mother of his children shall remain with them and
132 11|      matters; if there is a lack of children, let the choice be made
133 11|            view to having them; two children, one of either sex, shall
134 11|        called down wrath upon their children, whence it is clear that
135 11|            be, mighty against their children as no others are. And shall
136 11|           dishonoured by his or her children, are heard by the Gods in
137 11|         their wits, as if they were children, compelling the legislator
138 12|            which prevails among the children of the Nile, nor driving
139 12|        begets and brings up his own children, and has his share of dealings
140 12|        participate, and quite young children—I mean courage; for a courageous