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Ein Vater und sein mißratener Sohn (319 Aufrufe)
Γραικύλος schrieb am 15.07.2024 um 00:02 Uhr (Zitieren)
Aelian, Varia Historia I 34:
A man called Rhacoces, of the Mardian tribe, had seven children. The youngest of them was called Cartomes, who did a great deal of harm to his elder brothers.

At first his father tried to correct and restrain him by admonition. But when this failed, the local magistrates arrived at the house of the young man’s father, and the latter arrested the lad, tying his hands behind his back and taking him into the presence of the magistrates. He made a full and detailed denunciation of all his acts of misbehaviour and asked the magistrates to execute the young man.

They were horrified, and decided not to pass sentence on their own authority; instead they brought both before Artaxerxes, the king of Persia (1). When the Mardian repeated his statement, the king replied: “Have you really the courage to witness with your own eyes the death of your son?”

“Quite certainly,” said the man, “because in my garden, when I tear off and throw away the bitter shoots which grow on the lettuces, the parent lettuce shows no grief and flourishes all the more, becoming larger and sweeter. In the same way I too, your majesty,” he said, “seeing the destruction of one who ruins my home and the lives of his brothers, seeing an end to the damage done to them, I myself shall be the gainer and I shall witness the other members of my fami-ly enjoying the same good fortune as myself.”

On hearing this Artaxerxes commended Rhacoces and made him one of the royal magistrates, observing to the assembled company that a man who showed himself so fair-minded in the case of his own children would certainly be accurate and incorruptible in his treatment of other people’s affairs.

He also annulled the sentence which the young man was about to suffer, threatening him with the direst form of death sentence if he should be found adding to his past record of crime.

(1) vermutlich Artaxerxes I. (reg. 465-424 v.u.Z.)
 
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