Bring home a wife to your house when you are of the right a… - Hesiod

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Bring home a wife to your house when you are of the right age, while you are not far short of thirty years nor much above; this is the right age for marriage.

Hesiod

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Hesiod (Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an early Greek poet, believed to have lived around the year 700 BC.

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Native Name: Ἡσίοδος

Alternative Names: Hesiodus • Hesiod of Ascra

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Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

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