Chapter 16

Aregeus, when some praised not their own but other men’s wives, said: Faith, about virtuous women there should be no common talk; and what beauty they have none but their own husbands should understand. As he was walking through Selinus, a city of Sicily, he saw this epitaph upon a tomb, — Those that extinguished the tyrannic flame, Surprised by war and hasty fate, Though they are still alive in lasting fame, Lie buried near Selinus’ gate; — and said: You died deservedly for quenching it wnen already in a flame; for you should have hindered it from coming to a blaze.