Dialogue

 501 Text|                 to this he consistently hates. Those who have not the
 502 Text|               of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first
 503 Text|        questions, appear to most of his hearers to know nothing of the things
 504 Text|                 this teaching; or if he hears it, he laughs it to scorn
 505 Text|                 of Dionysios’ table and hearth and his associate in the
 506 Text|         attempted to carry out with our hearts set on the welfare of Syracuse.
 507 Text|             accompanied by impiety what heinous guilt is attached to each
 508 Text|              and choice select from all Hellas men whom they have ascertained
 509 Text|         attending you and with Heaven’s help, try to bring your efforts
 510 Text|              not summon me or any other helper to aid you against those
 511 Text|               his return that these two helpers in his restoration became
 512 Text|             once more, though with more hesitation, I began to be moved by
 513 Text|                 for him than it was for Hiero. If these things had been
 514 Text|           enacted, what everything then hinges on is this. If the conquerors
 515 Text|                by doing so. This is the history so far of my efforts to
 516 Text|         themselves, which had been hard hit by the barbarians but were
 517 Text|           induce to come from their own homes by entreaties and the promise
 518 Text|               he who obeyed me has died honourably. For the one thing which
 519 Text|               fugitive, not for want of hoplites, nor because I had no cavalry
 520 Text|              the result of relations of hospitality and the intercourse which
 521 Text|              him a plausible excuse for hostility towards me; and first of
 522 Text|              For a city of ten thousand householders their numbers should be
 523 Text|            younger, and had raised from humble station to high office and
 524 Text|                 perhaps not less than a hundred talents. If however the
 525 Text|             After this he continued the hunt for Heracleides, and Theodotes,
 526 Text|              with such subjects, in the idea that he had been fully instructed
 527 Text|             friends and his country the ideal of such a man would be to
 528 Text|               to him my views as to the ideals at which men should aim,
 529 Text|                carry out in practice my ideas about laws and constitutions,
 530 Text|                consider it a duty to be idle in everything else except
 531 Text|         expelled him from Syracuse with ignominy. All of us who were Dion’
 532 Text|            constituted. But if a man is ill-constituted by nature (as the state
 533 Text|                 create in the sovereign ill-feeling against Dion. I combated
 534 Text|            journeyings to Sicily and my ill-fortune there. But they disobeyed
 535 Text|                 fill some of them quite illogically with a mistaken feeling
 536 Text|              definition, the third. the image, and the fourth the knowledge.
 537 Text|                 satisfied with whatever images are presented to us, we
 538 Text|                in the spirit which some imagined, but principally through
 539 Text|             advise you, his friends, to imitate in Dion his love for his
 540 Text|              for a future time, whereas immediate action is called for by
 541 Text|              office and from poverty to immense wealth. Not one of these
 542 Text|                declare that the soul is immortal, that it has judges, and
 543 Text|          knowledge of it is necessarily imparted; fourth, there is the knowledge
 544 Text|                themselves and, enacting impartial laws, framed not to gratify
 545 Text|           wisdom, when dealing with the impious, would not be entirely blind
 546 Text|                he saw it being actually implanted in other minds-not many
 547 Text|                many, and those the most important, points, and to have a sufficient
 548 Text|                 them. The covetous man, impoverished as he is in the soul, turns
 549 Text|                my first visit. My first impressions on arrival were those of
 550 Text|             there was any likelihood of improvement in these symptoms and in
 551 Text|                against him and one most inappropriate in his case: for it was
 552 Text|                 glory was an additional incentive to him. The real reasons
 553 Text|           wronged.~Seeing me not at all inclined to stay, he devised the
 554 Text|             into a state that is almost incurable, except by some extraordinary
 555 Text|              ships and sail away, being indignant and thinking it my duty
 556 Text|              made a great outpouring of indignation at these occurrences, throwing
 557 Text|                the community or for the individual man, unless he passes his
 558 Text|                 enough. These they must induce to come from their own homes
 559 Text|             highest honours; and having induced them to come they must entreat
 560 Text|             unaware how high a pitch of infatuation and of general wickedness
 561 Text|             rule; and he showed himself inferior to Darius with a sevenfold
 562 Text|                 Darius with a sevenfold inferiority. For Darius did not put
 563 Text|                excessive penalties were inflicted by some persons on political
 564 Text|           purpose and desire was, I can inform you from no mere conjecture
 565 Text|               which occurs when one man initiates the other in the mysteries.
 566 Text|               advice, I do not take the initiative in advising such a man,
 567 Text|                the end of my advice and injunction and of the narrative of
 568 Text|                the aims which Dionysios injured, and for me everything else
 569 Text|          another; so long as you aim at injuring one another, call others
 570 Text|                 it would be tedious and inopportune to quote. Other letters
 571 Text|             suffering from an attack of insanity; and if they are following
 572 Text|             fiend has fallen upon them, inspiring them with lawlessness, godlessness
 573 Text|              And there is no end to the instances of the ambiguity from which
 574 Text|             idea that he had been fully instructed in my views. Now is not
 575 Text|              they appear to anyone more intelligible, and seem to anyone to show
 576 Text|             Come suppose that Dionysios intends to do none of the things
 577 Text|                 constant continuance of internal disorders, struggles, hatred
 578 Text|              from coming into close and intimate relations with me as a pupil
 579 Text|              court of Dionysios full of intrigues and of attempts to create
 580 Text|              place, he would be able to introduce the true life of happiness
 581 Text|                 best constitution to be introduced without driving men into
 582 Text|             putting it forth as his own invention, or to figure as a man possessed
 583 Text|          plunder their possessions, and invites his confederates and supporters
 584 Text|               the part of those who are inviting me to deal with the present
 585 Text|                  and how much labour it involves. For the man who has heard
 586 Text|             daily life as will give him inward sobriety and therewith quickness
 587 Text|                and acts of recklessness issuing from ignorance, the seed
 588 Text|                  though how he acquired it-God wot, as the Theban says;
 589 Text|                can happen to the circle itself-to which the other things,
 590 Text|               do not invite this man to join you, or expect him to do
 591 Text|                  when this step has the joint approval of himself, me,
 592 Text|             should advise you, as also, jointly with Dion, I advised Dionysios,
 593 Text|             disgusted with my misguided journeyings to Sicily and my ill-fortune
 594 Text|       government and the framing of the justest and best laws, reaching
 595 Text|               his disposal, he will act justly towards me, for it will
 596 Text|                them to death; he should keep quiet and offer up prayers
 597 Text|               of scaring me back and of keeping a tight hold on Dion’s property.
 598 Text|                end of me, if they could ket hold of me Accordingly I
 599 Text|               attained if he goes on to kill the men of substance, whom
 600 Text|           temperament which makes him a kin to philosophy and worthy
 601 Text|              the course of scrutiny and kindly testing by men who proceed
 602 Text|                to win all of us over by kindness: me in particular he encouraged,
 603 Text|       instruction, services and ties of kindred, so as to make him a partner
 604 Text|              disorders of all sorts and kinds which arise every day from
 605 Text|              other knowledge of various kinds-or if they have the kinship
 606 Text|              what the good lawgiver and king ought to be; for he drew
 607 Text|                 itself. Yet this much I know-that if the things were written
 608 Text|             eating and drinking and the laborious prosecution of debauchery.
 609 Text|                thirty-oared galley with Lamiscos, one of themselves, who
 610 Text|         teaching; or if he hears it, he laughs it to scorn with fancied
 611 Text|                 trial before a court of law, laying a most iniquitous
 612 Text|               them, inspiring them with lawlessness, godlessness and acts of
 613 Text|                put it under the rule of laws-for the other course is better
 614 Text|            trial before a court of law, laying a most iniquitous charge
 615 Text|                one soul by a flame that leaps to it from another, and
 616 Text|                the kinship but are slow learners and have no memory-none
 617     | least
 618 Text|          justice, and for these reasons leaving my own occupations, which
 619 Text|          dishonoured the master who has led the way in these subjects?
 620 Text|                  of whom he himself was legally the trustee. These were
 621 Text|                 is adequate and not too lengthy.~THE END~
 622 Text|                 we should consider it a lesser evil to suffer great wrongs
 623 Text|             inopportune to quote. Other letters arrived from Archytes and
 624 Text|         followed the opposite course of levying attribute for the barbarians.
 625 Text|            Sicilian Greeks, whom he had liberated, as one that plotted to
 626 Text|                 to see if there was any likelihood of improvement in these
 627 Text|            comes closest in kinship and likeness to the fifth, and the others
 628 Text|              efforts reach the furthest limits of human powers. Therefore
 629 Text|        relations with me as a pupil and listener to my discourses on philosophy,
 630 Text|               my friends at Athens were literally pushing me out with their
 631 Text|                 have ordered aright the lives of his fellow-citizens by
 632 Text|               contempt, and others with lofty and vain-glorious expectations,
 633 Text|                me had produced in him a longing for the noblest and best
 634 Text|             than I praised Dion, and to look upon him as more specially
 635 Text|            towards political life, as I looked at the course of affairs
 636 Text|                 by chance-but it really looks as if some higher power
 637 Text|                the prospect which I see looming in the future takes the
 638 Text|                his father, attempted to lower the pay of the older members
 639 Text|         supporters. Also I myself had a lurking feeling that there was nothing
 640 Text|              apply to those who live in luxury and are incapable of continuous
 641 Text|               told of a marvellous road lying before him, that he must
 642 Text|               by deterioration-not even Lynceus could endow such men with
 643 Text|                prove by actual fact the machinations of Dionysios.”~Having come
 644 Text|             that I may not treat as the main point what is only a side
 645 Text|                form of government which maintains justice and equality of
 646 Text|               they would, of course, so manage the State as to bring men
 647 Text|                dishonour by the rest of mankind-must we not say that philosophy
 648 Text|               on in accordance with the manners and practices of our fathers;
 649 Text|             just, to all bodies whether manufactured or coming into being in
 650 Text|           property of the few among the many-or if, being in charge the
 651 Text|           bodies being in charge of the market and municipal matters-while
 652 Text|              that he has been told of a marvellous road lying before him, that
 653 Text|              fear, because they are the masters and can display superior
 654 Text|                the market and municipal matters-while thirty were appointed rulers
 655 Text|               the first place be men of mature years, who have children
 656 Text|                 might~To fell Charybdis measure back my course,~but must
 657 Text|                that you may take strong measures with regard to Heracleides
 658 Text|                 in the overthrow of the Mede and Eunuch; and to these
 659 Text|                its opening sentences to meet all these conditions, and
 660 Text|         concerned? Had I been living at Megara, you would certainly have
 661 Text|              lower the pay of the older members of his body guard. The soldiers
 662 Text|               slow learners and have no memory-none of all these will ever learn
 663 Text|              wrote it, not as an aid to memory-since there is no risk of forgetting
 664 Text|                 or good, which is worth mentioning at all, belongs to things
 665 Text|                 the acropolis among the mercenaries. Various people then came
 666 Text|                  Nor was there a single merchant, or a single official in
 667 Text|           personal orders to any of the merchants, makes it clear, as he easily
 668 Text|           obedience either to my former message or to this one-well and
 669 Text|                  and Theodotes, sending messages, urged Heracleides to take
 670 Text|         philosophy and power had really met together, it would have
 671 Text|                 nor was there any ready method by which I could make new
 672 Text|          government is being carried on methodically and in a right course, it
 673 Text|             Dionysios; but some chance, mightier than men, brought it to
 674 Text|               learnt something high and mighty.~On this point I intend
 675 Text|              that it is open for him to migrate here, when this step has
 676 Text|               the matter and was in two minds as to whether I ought to
 677 Text|             actually implanted in other minds-not many perhaps, but certainly
 678 Text|                 the danger suggested by mischief-makers, that he might be ensnared,
 679 Text|               circumstance of shame and misery.~It was by urging these
 680 Text|            themselves were in exile and misfortune.~As I observed these incidents
 681 Text|              that they were one and all misgoverned. For their laws have got
 682 Text|                 I was disgusted with my misguided journeyings to Sicily and
 683 Text|            perceived that Dion had been misrepresented to the Sicilian Greeks,
 684 Text|                quite illogically with a mistaken feeling of contempt, and
 685 Text|                 them to ill feeling and misunderstanding among men by committing
 686 Text|            entreaties of sovereigns are mixed with compulsion. So to secure
 687 Text|             Providence has given even a moderate share of right intelligence
 688 Text|              one that plotted to become monarch, they not only betrayed
 689 Text|          despised and is well suited to monarchs, especially to those who
 690 Text|             allowed me to go, giving me money for the journey. But for
 691 Text|              success; and in the fourth month or thereabouts, charging
 692 Text|          learning and in what is called moral character)-or it may have
 693 Text|               training and education in morals. These were the aims which
 694 Text|               unwilling. To a father or mother I do not think that piety
 695 Text|        Dionysios. But before giving the motives and particulars of my conduct
 696 Text|         government and flatly refuse to move in the right path, and start
 697 Text|               hesitation, I began to be moved by the desire to take part
 698 Text|               arrival in Sicily at that movement proved to be the foundation
 699 Text|                charge of the market and municipal matters-while thirty were
 700 Text|          personally in the guilt of his murder, standing by his murderers
 701 Text|                 compared with this.~The murderer of Dion has, without knowing
 702 Text|             ends without executions and murders even on the smallest scale.~
 703 Text|        disorders, struggles, hatred and mutual distrust is the common lot
 704 Text|              initiates the other in the mysteries. It was from this kind of
 705     | namely
 706 Text|                spell of culture, should neglect the government and leave
 707 Text|                I refused and completely neglected Dion’s interests. Further,
 708 Text|               must be somewhere in this neighbourhood. For Heaven’s sake come
 709 Text|                 but Dion’s son, his own nephew, of whom he himself was
 710 Text|       philosophy and education. His own nephews and relatives, he said,
 711 Text|               With these views and thus nerved to the task, I sailed from
 712 Text|               anyone; also I stand as a neutral between you, if ever you
 713 Text|               without a partner for the night; and disapproval of the
 714 Text|               which is wholly right and noble is to strive for that which
 715 Text|             life could I have performed nobler than this, to write what
 716 Text|                in him a longing for the noblest and best life. And if it
 717 Text|                they had been men of any note.~All this has been said
 718 Text|               path, and start by giving notice to their adviser that he
 719 Text|                 of his empire, seven in number, each of them greater than
 720 Text|             after binding themselves by oath to show no partiality either
 721 Text|                 dishonour, while he who obeyed me has died honourably.
 722 Text|                 me your aid towards the objects for which I asked it; or
 723 Text|             pretext that the women were obliged to hold a sacrificial service
 724 Text|              exile and misfortune.~As I observed these incidents and the
 725 Text|                 going-since plainly and obviously I was doing no wrong, but
 726 Text|              out his work, whatever his occupation may be, but throughout it
 727 Text|            these reasons leaving my own occupations, which were certainly not
 728 Text|                 residence in Sicily was occupied in the way which I related
 729 Text|               and the intercourse which occurs when one man initiates the
 730 Text|              not please me, I would not offend them by offering useless,
 731 Text|               Dion and Dionysios; and I offended both of them by replying
 732 Text|             wrongful deed, and that the offender must drag with him the burden
 733 Text|                would not offend them by offering useless, advice, nor would
 734 Text|                 tried to persuade me by offers of honours and wealth to
 735 Text|             from humble station to high office and from poverty to immense
 736 Text|            single merchant, or a single official in charge of points of departure
 737 Text|                and third lesson and yet oftener. Does Dionysios, after a
 738 Text|                 to lower the pay of the older members of his body guard.
 739 Text|         constantly changing, tyrannies, oligarchies and democracies succeeding
 740 Text|               way to the Peloponnese to Olympia, where I found Dion a spectator
 741 Text|               abstain from words of ill omen. But, nevertheless, I advise
 742 Text|               former message or to this one-well and good. But I beg and
 743 Text|               we have reached. They had opened my eyes as to the value
 744 Text|                letter was framed in its opening sentences to meet all these
 745 Text|               mere surface colouring of opinions penetrating, like sunburn,
 746 Text|               some persons on political opponents, though those who had returned
 747 Text|           repeat, was as follows: “What opportunities,” he said, “shall we wait
 748 Text|               the kind of life which is opposed to this he consistently
 749 Text|                pursuit it is to have an orderly regulation of the daily
 750 Text|         philosophic study, but with the ordinary companionship common among
 751 Text|              have given twice before to others-not to enslave Sicily or any
 752     | otherwise
 753 Text|                 for me and made a great outpouring of indignation at these
 754 Text|                 me to remain after this outrage had been put upon Dion.
 755 Text|                 suffer great wrongs and outrages than to do them. The covetous
 756 Text|                  not master of himself, overcome by the cowardice which fears
 757 Text|                those who are capable of overthrowing an antagonist gets the better
 758 Text|                  and might therefore be overwhelmed by its force. The same thing
 759 Text|               gave to Dionysios, since, owing to bringing up which he
 760 Text|                on the pretence that the owner of the property was not
 761 Text|               me, he prevented them and paid some proper respect to my
 762 Text|               should be the person most pained. Again, if they had appeared
 763 Text|              order their counsellors to pander to their wishes and desires
 764 Text|              because of the strange and paradoxical character of the incidents.
 765 Text|                can ever be completely a partaker of knowledge of the fifth.
 766 Text|           themselves by oath to show no partiality either to conquerors or
 767 Text|              the very man who would not participate in the iniquitous arrest
 768 Text|                 I hear the rest of what passed between them, but what Theodotes
 769 Text|                 consent to take me as a passenger, when I leave the house:
 770 Text|               individual man, unless he passes his life under the rule
 771 Text|              can say about all writers, past or future, who say they
 772 Text|              object. I endured all this patiently, retaining the purpose with
 773 Text|                 Zeus the Preserver, the patron of third ventures, and looking
 774 Text|               another. Thus he showed a pattern of what the good lawgiver
 775 Text|                  attempted to lower the pay of the older members of
 776 Text|                 the city and ten in the Peiraeus-each of these bodies being in
 777 Text|               itself and from the whole Peloponnese-and have no fear even of Athens;
 778 Text|              make no change in it under penalty of death-if such men should
 779 Text|           surface colouring of opinions penetrating, like sunburn, only skin
 780 Text|               come to Sicily, when they perceived that Dion had been misrepresented
 781 Text|               of all that had occurred. Perceiving that we were all in this
 782 Text|                yearning to fly from its perch, and he always devising
 783 Text|               task in life could I have performed nobler than this, to write
 784 Text|                with giving him a merely perfunctory answer. But if a man does
 785 Text|             names, nothing will be less permanent (than a name). Again with
 786 Text|                 man with puzzlement and perplexity.~Now in subjects in which,
 787 Text|                which he has secured the Persian empire in safety down to
 788 Text|                entreating me to go. For persistent rumours came from Sicily
 789 Text|        companion and friend, but shared personally in the guilt of his murder,
 790 Text|               brave and temperate and a philosopher, the same belief with regard
 791 Text|               me is a small matter. But philosophy-whose praises you are always singing,
 792 Text|               patient to be a man and a physician, and one who gives in to
 793 Text|            questioners, who can pull to pieces and criticise the four things.
 794 Text|               he was unaware how high a pitch of infatuation and of general
 795 Text|              prevented from going-since plainly and obviously I was doing
 796 Text|                 I devised the following plan for my safety.~I sent to
 797 Text|              higher power was even then planning to lay a foundation for
 798 Text|                 be his partner in these plans, remembering in his own
 799 Text|                  What was said probably pleased him, and he felt some shame
 800 Text|          understanding that he does not plot against me. You and your
 801 Text|                 his country, by forming plots and getting together conspirators,
 802 Text|              had liberated, as one that plotted to become monarch, they
 803 Text|            current slanders, that I was plotting with you against him and
 804 Text|                possible to be active in politics without friends and trustworthy
 805 Text|                good or evil will be the portion of every soul, either while
 806 Text|                and to these he assigned portions of his empire, seven in
 807 Text|                mere conjecture but from positive knowledge. For when I made
 808 Text|               for a man to say anything positively about other men, that, if
 809 Text|                the fairest spot that he possesses. But if these things were
 810 Text|               no man under heaven could possibly attain to wisdom-human nature
 811 Text|            himself that I should arrive post haste in person as the bearer
 812 Text|                course of public life, I postponed action till a suitable opportunity
 813 Text|                 to high office and from poverty to immense wealth. Not one
 814 Text|         accordance with the manners and practices of our fathers; nor was
 815 Text|                 to me, and wished me to praise him more than I praised
 816 Text|               to praise him more than I praised Dion, and to look upon him
 817 Text|            matter. But philosophy-whose praises you are always singing,
 818 Text|                 keep quiet and offer up prayers for his own welfare and
 819 Text|                 them; but, while taking precautions against them, he nevertheless,
 820 Text|              just been set forth in the preceding narrative. Accordingly,
 821 Text|                 by comparison something precious as gold-for among other
 822 Text|          actually followed, thinking it preferable to suffer iniquitous deeds
 823 Text|               not acting at all well in preferring always Dion and Dion’s friends
 824 Text|                 whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound
 825 Text|           relatives and friends to make preparations for taking vengeance on
 826 Text|              essence, each of the four, presenting to the soul by word and
 827 Text|                  that he must forthwith press on with all his strength,
 828 Text|        philosophy. For this reason Dion pressed me urgently not to decline
 829 Text|                the acropolis, finding a pretext that the women were obliged
 830 Text|                my advice has been given pretty fully and may be regarded
 831 Text|          various sources-charges which, prevailing as they did with Dionysios,
 832 Text|               of them, and that nothing prevents the things now called round
 833 Text|                which some imagined, but principally through a feeling of shame
 834 Text|              what justice in public and private life really is. Therefore,
 835 Text|                 were concerned, and the probable line which their conduct
 836 Text|               understanding about every problem, and an intelligence whose
 837 Text|               kindly testing by men who proceed by question and answer without
 838 Text|             took the form of action.~To proceed-when Dion had twice over delivered
 839 Text|                 to secure his object he proceeded to render my departure impossible,
 840 Text|                  I disapproved of their proceedings, and withdrew from any connection
 841 Text|               the four instruments. The process however of dealing with
 842 Text|             best life. And if it should produce a similar effect on Dionysios,
 843 Text|               which this manner of life produces. For with these habits formed
 844 Text|           Dionysios ask for one. For he professed to know many, and those
 845 Text|                 from me, composing what professes to be his own handbook,
 846 Text|                 that Dionysios had made progress in philosophy. He also sent
 847 Text|       unaccompanied, and would not have promptly seized me and taken me back
 848 Text|               was willing to do what he proposed, but that I refused and
 849 Text|               impiety that some of them prosecuted and others condemned and
 850 Text|              drinking and the laborious prosecution of debauchery. It follows
 851 Text|                 talents. If however the prospect which I see looming in the
 852 Text|             good one, he should say so, provided that his words are not likely
 853 Text|                them or truckle to them, providing them with the means of satisfying
 854 Text|                 by questioners, who can pull to pieces and criticise
 855 Text|         intimate relations with me as a pupil and listener to my discourses
 856 Text|            terms of the sale and of the purchasers. He spoke not a word to
 857 Text|                 peltasts with orders to pursue him. But Heracleides, as
 858 Text|               till either those who are pursuing a right and true philosophy
 859 Text|                at Athens were literally pushing me out with their urgent
 860 Text|                 may say, every man with puzzlement and perplexity.~Now in subjects
 861 Text|            bring to the pursuit all the qualities necessary to it. Thus it
 862 Text|                to the previous one, for quarrelling with me. Sending a messenger
 863 Text|                said, “to these constant quarrels between you and me about
 864 Text|                  and establishing me in quarters from which not a single
 865 Text|            ridicule by one another, the questioned by questioners, who can
 866 Text|              another, the questioned by questioners, who can pull to pieces
 867 Text|                to death; he should keep quiet and offer up prayers for
 868 Text|              tedious and inopportune to quote. Other letters arrived from
 869 Text|            colours, as a man would in a rage. Theodotes, falling before
 870 Text|              they were younger, and had raised from humble station to high
 871 Text|              was growing with startling rapidity. The result was that, though
 872 Text|               took place. For Dion, who rapidly assimilated my teaching
 873 Text|                 on this occasion at any rate was really a case of “the
 874 Text|              intelligence whose efforts reach the furthest limits of human
 875 Text|              the justest and best laws, reaching these ends without executions
 876 Text|          consults me, I advise him with readiness, and do not content myself
 877 Text|              takes the course which may reasonably be expected, I know not
 878 Text|            learning, a good memory, and reasoning power; the kind of life
 879 Text|             virtue and in hatred of the reckless acts of those who shed the
 880 Text|           extraordinary person, have so recklessly dishonoured the master who
 881 Text|                 godlessness and acts of recklessness issuing from ignorance,
 882 Text|               Dion his property or been reconciled with him on any terms, none
 883 Text|                listen to my attempts at reconciliation, and so brought on their
 884 Text|               if you ask my reasons for recounting the story of my second journey
 885 Text|              from him was not likely to redound to his credit, but my staying
 886 Text|               the expulsion of Dion and reduced me to a state of apprehension.
 887 Text|            other things, mentioned have reference; for it is something of
 888 Text|            except by some extraordinary reform with good luck to support
 889 Text|             right government and flatly refuse to move in the right path,
 890 Text|            forms of advice, and one who refuses it to be a true man.~Holding
 891 Text|              act righteously, and he by refusing to act righteously during
 892 Text|               quality), a thing open to refutation by the senses, being merely
 893 Text|               if they are following any regular habits of life which please
 894 Text|                it is to have an orderly regulation of the daily life, come
 895 Text|              his guide in the path, and relaxes not his efforts, till he
 896 Text|                associate in the acts of religion. He probably believed the
 897 Text|             this it was of which he was remarkably in need. This we did not
 898 Text|               in my presence I know and remember. “Plato,” he said, “I am
 899 Text|             Dion’s trustees to send him remittances to the Peloponnese, on the
 900 Text|                 sent by him to order my removal. Nor was there a single
 901 Text|              his object he proceeded to render my departure impossible,
 902 Text|                 he lived in a way which rendered him somewhat unpopular among
 903 Text|            greatest power and honour by rendering the greatest services. And
 904 Text|              The same is true if anyone renders services of this kind to
 905 Text|            perhaps it is rather long to repeat, was as follows: “What opportunities,”
 906 Text|              and Syracusans, who ate to repletion twice every day, and were
 907 Text|                 speech or writing or in replies to questions, appear to
 908 Text|               this kind what creditable reply could I have made? Surely
 909 Text|                offended both of them by replying that I was an old man, and
 910 Text|              These all brought the same report, that Dionysios had made
 911 Text|                own fellow citizens, and reported that I was evil spoken of
 912 Text|              involved? Far from it.” To reproaches of this kind what creditable
 913 Text|                that you will escape the reputation of cowardice by making excuses
 914 Text|                began sending for me; he requested that Dion should wait for
 915 Text|                will do this for Dion. I require him to take his own property
 916 Text|             again.~The next point which requires to be made clear to anyone
 917 Text|               my efforts to come to the rescue of philosophy and of my
 918 Text|               all others to the work of resettling all the States of Sicily
 919 Text|         entirely done for.~After this I resided outside the acropolis among
 920 Text|          equalled in any young man, and resolved to live for the future in
 921 Text|                civil strife there is no respite from trouble till the victors
 922 Text|                 unaided nor make myself responsible for such a deep and real
 923 Text|               or vulgar friendship, but rested on community in liberal
 924 Text|                these two helpers in his restoration became his companions. Having
 925 Text|                 cherished scheme not to restore Dion’s property would give
 926 Text|                men to obey these by two restraining forces, respect and fear;
 927 Text|                Dion’s affairs will have results in accordance with your
 928 Text|                was that which he always retained, I mean the belief that
 929 Text|             endured all this patiently, retaining the purpose with which I
 930 Text|                 to him, but that he may retire from the country till Dionysios
 931 Text|                 would have had the same reverence for it, which I have, and
 932 Text|               desire was genuine or the reverse, and on no account leave
 933 Text|              the front as rulers of the revolutionary government, namely eleven
 934 Text|               us, we are not held up to ridicule by one another, the questioned
 935 Text|                own or that of any other right-minded man ought to be. With regard
 936 Text|              his life under the rule of righteousness with the guidance of wisdom,
 937 Text|            force; respect, because they rise superior to pleasures and
 938 Text|                memory-since there is no risk of forgetting it, if a man’
 939 Text|                 he would not obey them, risking all consequences in preference
 940 Text|               been told of a marvellous road lying before him, that he
 941 Text|              evils for all mankind take root and grow and will in future
 942 Text|                 that which is drawn and rubbed out again, or turned on
 943 Text|              second venture wrecked and ruined everything.~And now, for
 944 Text|            whether it be under a single ruler or more than one, if, while
 945 Text|                 should cause a complete rupture in their friendship with
 946 Text|                 and influence. But now, rushing upon one another, they have
 947 Text|               believe those ancient and sacred teachings, which declare
 948 Text|            women were obliged to hold a sacrificial service for ten days in
 949 Text|                make me stay during that sading season. On the next day
 950 Text|              the good fortune to return safely; and for this I must, next
 951 Text|              men, still it seemed to me safer at that time to part company
 952 Text|                the sure test and is the safest one to apply to those who
 953 Text|              thus nerved to the task, I sailed from home, in the spirit
 954 Text|                 manner and terms of the sale and of the purchasers. He
 955 Text|           expect him to do any loyal or salutary act; but invite all others
 956 Text|               and would have given them salvation. But now some higher power
 957 Text|           search for the truth, but are satisfied with whatever images are
 958 Text|                 affairs; afterwards, to satisfy those who put the question
 959 Text|        providing them with the means of satisfying desires which I myself would
 960 Text|                 Socrates, whom I should scarcely scruple to describe as the
 961 Text|                devising some new way of scaring me back and of keeping a
 962 Text|               hears it, he laughs it to scorn with fancied superiority,
 963 Text|                this moment peltasts are scouring the country seeking to arrest
 964 Text|               another, in the course of scrutiny and kindly testing by men
 965 Text|                 time into the strait of Scylla,~that once again I might~
 966 Text|                 been accustomed even to search for the truth, but are satisfied
 967 Text|                to teach, first to Dion, secondly to Dionysios, and now for
 968 Text|             issuing from ignorance, the seed from which all evils for
 969 Text|            known from this that, if one sees written treatises composed
 970 Text|                 Dion with conspiracy to seize the throne, Dionysios put
 971 Text|                 would not have promptly seized me and taken me back to
 972 Text|              natures that are bent upon seizing such gains for themselves,
 973 Text|                their own act and choice select from all Hellas men whom
 974 Text|             most honourable for a man’s self and for his country, and
 975 Text|               up, leading the way in my self-communing, was this: “Come suppose
 976 Text|              preference to pleasure and self-indulgence. The result was that until
 977 Text|            Therefore, he said, he would sell it, and when it was sold
 978 Text|                was the brilliant one of selling the whole of Dion’s property,
 979 Text|               sights, and other data of sense, are brought into contact
 980 Text|               open to refutation by the senses, being merely the thing
 981 Text|               was framed in its opening sentences to meet all these conditions,
 982 Text|             foundation on which all the sequel rests? I was brought into
 983 Text|                fears might lead to some serious consequence, he now tried
 984 Text|              are willing and able to be servants to the laws. There is no
 985 Text|                 portions of his empire, seven in number, each of them
 986 Text|               inferior to Darius with a sevenfold inferiority. For Darius
 987 Text|               their rule over these for seventy years, because they had
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 989 Text|                fancied superiority, and shamelessly snatches for himself from
 990 Text|              not in words nor in bodily shapes, but in souls-from which
 991 Text|               companion and friend, but shared personally in the guilt
 992 Text|                 way forced me to be the sharer of Dionysios’ table and
 993 Text|              reckless acts of those who shed the blood of friends.~But
 994 Text|          Dionysios; and those two stood shedding silent tears, while I said: “
 995 Text|               with a sudden flash there shines forth understanding about
 996 Text|              for it is expressed in the shortest of statements-but if he
 997 Text|               was to be done at all, he shrank from coming into close and
 998 Text|            which I have, and would have shrunk from putting it forth into
 999 Text|         attempted to use force to them, shutting the gates of the acropolis;
1000 Text|             Dion’s murderers and of the Sicilians, do not invite this man