Chapter XXXVI. Of Honour to Parents

AGAIN Moses says in his laws: ‘Let every man fear his father and his mother,’[1] and ‘Honour thy father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee’[2]; and Plato, like Moses, bids us both honour and fear them, speaking thus in the Laws:

[P] [3] ‘Every man of sense fears and honours the prayers of his parents, knowing that many times and for many persons they have been accomplished.’

And again in another place he says:

[P] [4] ‘We would have every one reverence his elder both in word and deed. And any one who is twenty years older than himself, whether male or female, let him regard as father or mother, and treat with reverence.’