Dialogue

 1 Text|        PLATO TO THE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS OF DION.~WELFARE.~You write
 2 Text|   iniquitous arrest of one of the friends of the party then in exile,
 3 Text|        active in politics without friends and trustworthy supporters;
 4 Text|         by which I could make new friends. The laws too, written and
 5 Text|         All of us who were Dion’s friends were afraid that he might
 6 Text|         and able to gain faithful friends and supporters, in order
 7 Text|         badly off for trustworthy friends; and there is no surer criterion
 8 Text|          is not destitute of such friends.~This, then, was the advice
 9 Text|          this way, he should make friends of others among his connections
10 Text|        brothers, who had been his friends, not from community in philosophic
11 Text|   companionship common among most friends, which they form as the
12 Text|           view to counselling the friends and family of Dion. And
13 Text|   nevertheless, I advise you, his friends, to imitate in Dion his
14 Text|       those who shed the blood of friends.~But if, after all, this
15 Text|       advice to the relatives and friends of Dion. After those events
16 Text|         drag me thither, while my friends at Athens were literally
17 Text|      betray Dion and my Tarentine friends and supporters. Also I myself
18 Text|          himself, me, and you his friends; and this shall be open
19 Text|          against me. You and your friends and Dion’s friends here
20 Text|           your friends and Dion’s friends here must be sureties for
21 Text|          approval of you and your friends. For I have no great confidence
22 Text|        confidence in you and your friends. See if this satisfies you;
23 Text|           of philosophy and of my friends.~After this Dionysios and
24 Text|           all Sicily that we were friends. Dionysios, now deserting
25 Text| preferring always Dion and Dion’s friends to him.” And he did not
26 Text|           and Heracleides were my friends, and he my enemy. He also
27 Text|          to Archytes and my other friends in Taras, telling them the
28 Text|          me with my relatives and friends to make preparations for
29 Text|         him that he might call my friends to his aid, if they wished
30 Text|      regard to his own power, his friends and his country the ideal