Show 4 Z PRECEPT AND PRACTICE 1 an story that Us aixa a noial xa ern to la theme days it happened at athens ns during a public presentation of a play ablay in honor of the commonwealth that an old man came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality relates a writer in the lutheran some of the young men who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in made signs to him that they would accommodate him if he came where they thet sat the old man bustled through the crowd accordingly for or the seat proffered him but when he came cama to the seats to which he was invited the jest was to close and expose him as he stood out of countenance before the audience the frolic went round all the athenian benches but on these occasions there were also particular places assigned to foreigners so when the old man skulked toward the boxes appointed for the Lac edemon ians that honest people more virtuous than polite rose au all to a man and with the greatest respect received him amongst them T the he athenians being suddenly touched with a sense of spartan virtue and their own degeneracy gave a loud applause of admiration then the old man as soon as the none noise subsided cried out the athenians understand what is good but the it 1 11 practice |