[16] see "hellenica essays," p. 371.
[17] "to depravity of speech and conduct" (whether as advocates or performers). see aristoph. "clouds."[18] or, "bring down on themselves, their children, and their friends a spring of misfortunes in the shape of diseases, losses, or even death."[19] "for what does a chivalrous education teach save to obey the law, and to make the theme of justice familiar to tongue and ear?"in the one camp are those who, subjecting themselves ever to new toil and fresh instruction, have, at the cost of lessons and exercises painful to themselves, obtained to their several states salvation; and in the other are those who for the very irksomeness of the process choose not to be taught, but rather to pass away their days in pleasures unseasonable--nature's abjects these.[20] not theirs is it to obey either laws or good instruction;[21] nay, how should they, who never toil, discover what a good man ought to be?--in other words, wisdom and justice are alike beyond their power. subject to indiscipline, they have many a fault to find with him who is well educated.
[20] lit. "the sorriest of mankind these by nature."[21] or, "virtuous argument"; {logois agathois}, lit. "good words." through the instrumentality of such as these nothing can go well;whereas every blessing which mankind enjoys has been discovered by the efforts of the nobler sort. nobler, i say, are those who choose to toil.[22]