Ac ne eiusdem laudis commemorationem externis invideamus, Pericles, Atheniensium princeps, cum tragoediarum scriptorem Sophoclea in praetura collegam haberet, et is publico officio una districtus pueri ingenui praetereuntis formam impensioribus verbis laudasset, intemperantiam eius increpans dixit praetoris non solum manus a pecuniae lucro sed etiam oculos a libidinoso aspectu continentes esse debere.
Let us not grudge outsiders commemoration of the same virtue. Pericles, the Athenian leader, had the writer of tragedies Sophocles as his colleague on the board of generals. When they were together occupied in public duty, Sophocles praised in excessive terms the beauty of a freeborn boy who was passing by. Rebuking his lack of control, Pericles observed that not only should a generals hands be restrained from pecuniary gain but his eyes from lustful gazing.
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