The judgment of the censor inflicts scarcely anything more than a blush on the man whom he condemns.

Therefore as all that adjudication turns solely on the name (_nomen_), the punishment is called ignominy.
Nor should a prefect be set over women, an officer who is created among the Greeks; but there should be a censor to teach husbands to manage their wives.
So the discipline of modesty has great power.

All women abstain from wine.
And also if any woman was of bad character, her relations used not to kiss her.
So petulance is derived from asking (_petendo_); wantonness (_procacitas_) from _procando_, that is, from demanding.
VII.

For I do not approve of the same nation being the ruler and the farmer of lands.

But both in private families and in the affairs of the Commonwealth I look upon economy as a revenue.
Faith (_fides_) appears to me to derive its name from that being done (_fit_) which is said.
In a citizen of rank and noble birth, caressing manners, display, and ambition are marks of levity.
Examine for a while the books on the Republic, and learn that good men know no bound or limit in consulting the interests of their country.