v. 186 foll.;
Pind. "Pyth." vi. 28; Philostr. "Her." iv.; "Icon." ii. 281.

(39) Lit. "to be alone proclaimed Philopator among the Hellenes." Cf.
Plat. "Laws," 730 D, "He shall be proclaimed the great and perfect
citizen, and bear away the palm of virtue"; and for the epithet
see Eur. "Or." 1605; "I. A." 68.

Aeneas (40) saved the ancestral gods--his father's and his mother's;
(41) yea, and his own father also, whereby he bore off a reputation
for piety so great that to him alone among all on whom they laid their
conquering hand in Troy even the enemy granted not to be despoiled.

(40) As to Aeneas see Poseidon's speech, "Il." xx. 293 foll.; Grote,
"H. G." i. 413, 427 foll.

(41) Cf. "Hell." II. iv. 21.

Achilles, (42) lastly, being nursed in this same training, bequeathed to
after-days memorials so fair, so ample, that to speak or hear concerning
him no man wearies.

(42) "The highest form that floated before Greek imagination was
Achilles," Hegel, "Lectures on the Philosophy of History" (Eng.
tr. p. 233); and for a beautiful elaboration of that idea, J. A.
Symonds, "Greek Poets," 2nd series, ch. ii.

Such, by dint of that painstaking care derived from Cheiron, these all
proved themselves; of whom all good men yet still to-day are lovers
and all base men envious. So much so that if throughout the length and
breadth of Hellas misfortunes at any time befell city or king, it was
they who loosed the knot of them; (43) or if all Hellas found herself
confronted with the hosts of the Barbarians in strife and battle,
once again it was these who nerved the arms of Hellenes to victory and
rendered Hellas unconquered and unconquerable.

(43) Reading {eluonto autous}, or if as L. D., {di autous}, transl.
"thanks to them, they were loosed."

For my part, then, my advice to the young is, do not despise hunting or
the other training of your boyhood, if you desire to grow up to be
good men, good not only in war but in all else of which the issue is
perfection in thought, word, and deed.

II

The first efforts of a youth emerging from boyhood should be directed to
the institution of the chase, after which he should come to the rest of
education, provided he have the means and with an eye to the same; if
his means be ample, in a style worthy of the profit to be derived; or,
if they be scant, let him at any rate contribute enthusiasm, in nothing
falling short of the power he poss