> in every household the children, naked and filthy, grow up with those stout frames and limbs which we so much admire. every mother suckles her own offspring, and never entrusts it to servants and nurses. the master is not distinguished from the slave by being brought up with greater delicacy. both live amid the same flocks and lie on the same ground till the freeborn are distinguished by age and recognised by merit. the young men marry late, and their vigour is thus unimpaired. nor are the maidens hurried into marriage; the same age and a similar stature is required; well-matched and vigorous they wed, and the offspring reproduce the strength of the parents.
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