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Hesiod - Works and Days - On women and marriage
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Hesiod: Works And Days - translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White [1914]
(ll. 695-705) 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.
Let your wife have been grown up four years, and marry her in the fifth.
Marry a maiden, so that you can teach her careful ways, and especially marry one who lives near you, but look well about you and see that your marriage will not be a joke to your neighbours.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one, a greedy soul who roasts her man without fire, strong though he may be, and brings him to a raw old age.