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6 What, then, prevents our imitating such men as these? Have you failed in your canvass for an office? You will be able to live in the country and look after your own affairs. Were you repulsed in wooing the friendship of some great man? Your life will be free from danger and trouble. Have you, again, become occupied with matters which take all your time and fill you with cares? Nor shall hot water so soften the limbs, as Pindar Nemean Odes, iv. 4. has it, since high repute and honour conjoined with a measure of power make Labour pleasant and toil to be sweet toil.Euripides, Bacchae, 66; Cf. Moralia, 758 c, 794 b; Commentarii in Hesiodum, 48 (Bernardakis, vol. vii. p. 75). Have you, by reason of slander or envy, become the butt of jeers and cat-calls? The breeze is favouring that bears you to the Muses and the Academy,The Academy was dedicated to the Muses. as it was for Plato Cf. for example Diogenes Laertius, iii. 19-21. When Dionysius had caused Plato to be sold into slavery, a friend ransomed him and bought for him the little garden in the Academy. when he was buffeted by the storm of Dionysius’s friendship.