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In Boeotia, after veiling the bride, they put on her head a chaplet of
asparagus ; for this plant yields the finest flavoured fruit from the
roughest thorns, and so the bride will provide for him who does not run away
or feel annoyed at her first display of peevishness and unpleasantness a
docile and sweet life together. Those who do not patiently put up with the
early girlish disagreements are on a par with those who on account of the
sourness of green grapes abandon the ripe clusters to others. Again, many of
the newly married women because of their first experiences get annoyed at
their husbands, and find
[p. 303] themselves in like predicament with those who patiently
submit to the bees' stings, but abandon the honeycomb.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. 2.
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