ViCe AnD VirTue 49 placens Deo et contine et congrega cor tuum in sanctitate eius et tris- titiam longe expelle a te) 29. Here, the idea of self-deception is shifted to self-pity and modified with the concepts of pleasing God and self- control. Likewise, the Greek’s reference to comfort is reoriented towards the holiness of self-discipline 30. in the passage discussed above in relation to Grii, the Latin also contains the title “On Temperance of the Soul” (de continentia ani- mae) 31 prior to 18,30 and the elaboration of 19,3 in manuscript 743 and Clement of Alexandria. The bicolon found in 19,5b-6a is not found in the Latin, but this may be because it was missing from the Latin’s Vorlage. However, a few verses earlier in 19,2 the Latin adds to the statement that wine and women lead the intelligent astray a further warning that they will even test the prudent (+ et arguent [or arguet] sensatos) 32. The most significant additions related to desire and self-control are clustered in passages concerning sexual morality and the consumption of wine. On the issue of sexual morality there are two passages with clusters of additions in the Latin. First, in 9,1-9 (1-12) Ben Sira discusses caution in relating to various kinds of women. Although the instruction opens with a reference to wives, the instruction quickly transitions to a discussion of women who are off-limits for the male student. in 9,4 the Latin makes the admonition more restrictive 33. The advice to avoid spending time with a female performer is expanded to a prohibition not to listen to her either (+ nec audias illam), presum- ably because this could be the first step in a process of seduction 34. in antiquity the potential seductiveness of a woman’s singing voice was recognized by both Jews (b. Berachot 24a) and Greeks (note the myth of the Sirens) 35. This heightening of a prohibition occurs in 9,6 as 29 Biblia Sacra iuxta latinam vulgatam versionem, XII, 280. 30 Other places where the Latin adds general notions of restraint and absten- tion from sin are 3,3 (4) and 3,29 (31-32). These are the only three instances of self-control listed in keArnS, Expanded Text, 75. 31 Z lacks this title. See THieLe, Sirach, 530. 32 D: et arguunt sensatos. m lacks this addition. See THieLe, Sirach, 539. regarding this addition, compare Theognis 499-502. 33 Similarly, in 9,9 (12) the warning against dining with another man’s wife is expanded to prohibit reclining with her, but this addition is also found in Clement of Alexandria, and so it likely reflects an expansion already in the Latin’s Greek Vorlage. See ZieGLer, Sirach, 166. 34 So also D. See THieLe, Sirach, 341. 35 my thanks to Gary Anderson for drawing my attention to this motif.