We said that the children’s parents should be in their prime. True. Do you share the view that a woman’s prime lasts about twenty years and a man’s about thirty? [e] Which years are those? A woman is to bear children for the city from the age of twenty to the age of forty, a man from the time that he passes his peak as a runner until he reaches fifty-five. At any rate, that’s the physical and mental prime for both. [461]
