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. (Hesiod)

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.

Hesiod

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