Dialogue

 1 Text|          was that it should, he had great hope that, without bloodshed,
 2 Text|      philosophers and the rulers of great States. These were the appeals
 3 Text|            so. Therefore, he made a great pretence of entreating me.
 4 Text|           taken under his rule many great cities of Sicily which had
 5 Text|         secured his own safety with great difficulty. For he was badly
 6 Text| apprehension. But when-to summarise great events which happened in
 7 Text|         events which happened in no great time-Dion returned from
 8 Text|             a lesser evil to suffer great wrongs and outrages than
 9 Text|          for learning, and he has a great craving for honour and glory.
10 Text|          learn, hearing talk of the great truths of philosophy, should
11 Text|             deep, when they see how great the range of studies is,
12 Text|           this, to write what is of great service to mankind and to
13 Text|           Dionysios or anyone else, great or small, has written a
14 Text|            beyond his range and too great for him, and himself to
15 Text|         your friends. For I have no great confidence in him, that,
16 Text|         furious, and, assembling in great numbers, declared that they
17 Text|           promised nothing small or great.” “By the gods,” I said, “
18 Text|    Theodotes sent for me and made a great outpouring of indignation
19 Text|             charge the affairs of a great State which rules over many