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Xenophon, Memorabilia (ed. E. C. Marchant), Book 2, chapter 8 (search)
Again, on meeting an old comrade after long absence he said: “Where do you come from, Eutherus?”“I came home when the war ended, Socrates, and am now living here,” he replied. “Since we have lost our foreign property, and my father left me nothing in Attica, I am forced to settle down here now and work for my living with my hands. I think it's better than begging, especially as I have no security to offer for a loan.” “And how long will you have the strength, do you think, to earn your living by your work?”“Oh, not long, of course.”“But remember, when you get old you will have to spend money, and nobody will be willing to pay you for your labour.”“True.” “Then it would be better to take up some kind of work at once that will assure you a competence when you get old, and to go to somebody who is better off and wants an assistant, and get a return for your services by acting as his bailiff, helping to get in his crops and looking after his property.” “I shouldn
Xenophon, Memorabilia (ed. E. C. Marchant), Book 3, chapter 5 (search)
ans, who formerly would not venture, even in their own country, to face the Athenians without help from Sparta and the rest of the Peloponnese, threaten to invade Attica by themselves, and the Athenians, who formerly overran Boeotia, fear that the Boeotians may plunder Attica.” “Ah, I am aware of that,” answered Socrates; “but theAttica.” “Ah, I am aware of that,” answered Socrates; “but the disposition of our city is now more to a good ruler's liking. For confidence breeds carelessness, slackness, disobedience: fear makes men more attentive, more obedient, more amenable to discipline. The behaviour of sailors is a case in point. So long as they have nothing to fear, they are, I believe, an unruly lot, but when they ount were, as they themselves have been told, the most valiant.” “Do you refer to the judgment of the gods,i.e., between Poseidon and Athena for the possession of Attica. which Cecrops delivered in his court because of his virtue?”“Yes, and the care and birth of Erectheus,Iliad, II. 547. *e)rexqh=|os megalh/toros