in every
operation which needs the instrumentality of man; but most of all,
perhaps, in agriculture. Not that I would maintain that it is a thing to
be lightly learnt by a glance of the eye, or hearsay fashion, as a tale
that is told. Far from it, I assert that he who is to have this
power has need of education; he must have at bottom a good natural
disposition; and, what is greatest of all, he must be himself a god-like
being. [15] For if I rightly understand this blessed gift, this faculty
of command over willing followers, by no means is it, in its entirety,
a merely human quality, but it is in part divine. It is a gift plainly
given to those truly initiated [16] in the mystery of self-command.
Whereas despotism over unwilling slaves, the heavenly ones give, as it
seems to me, to those whom they deem worthy to live the life of Tantalus
in Hades, of whom it is written [17] "he consumes unending days in
apprehension of a second death."

[11] According to Sturz, "Lex." s.v., the {epitropos} is (as a rule,
see "Mem." II. viii.) a slave or freedman, the {epistates} a free
man. See "Mem." III. v. 18.

[12] Apparently a homely formula, like "make hay whilst the sun
shines," "a stitch in time saves nine."

[13] Cf. Hom. "Il." ix. 436, xvii. 625; "Hell." VII. i. 31.

[14] Reading {kratiste ousa}, or if with Heindorf, {kratisteusai},
transl. "to prove himself the best."

[15] See "Cyrop." I. i. 3; Grote, "Plato," vol. iii. 571.

[16] See Plat. "Phaed." 69 C; Xen. "Symp." i. 10.

[17] Or, "it is said." See Eur. "Orest." 5, and Porson ad loc.

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