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You asked me whether I thought that the road to the attainment of honours had
been easier to me the son of a Roman knight, than it would be to my son, who
was now of a consular family. But although I would rather that all good
fortune fell to his lot than to my own, still I have never wished for him
that the road to honour might be more easy to him than I have found it
myself. Moreover, lest he should by chance think that I have procured him
honours myself rather than pointed out to him the path by which he might
arrive at them, I am accustomed to read him this lesson (although his age is
not exactly the age to attend to instruction,) which the great son of
Jupiter is represented teaching
his children,—“
“Men must always be vigilant; there are many snares in the
path of virtuous men.”
” You know the rest do you not? “ “That which many men envy
* * * *”
”1 Which that wise and ingenious poet wrote not in order to excite those boys who were no longer in existence to toil and the desire of glory but to encourage us and our children in such pursuits.
” You know the rest do you not? “ “That which many men envy
* * * *”
”1 Which that wise and ingenious poet wrote not in order to excite those boys who were no longer in existence to toil and the desire of glory but to encourage us and our children in such pursuits.
