Book 2
1
Well have I not read to you,These are the words of some pupil who is boasting of what he has written. and do you not know what I was doing? In what? In my little dissertations. —Show me how you are with respect to desire and aversion (ἔκκλισιν); and show me if you do not fail in getting what you wish, and if you do not fall into the things which you would avoid: but as to these long and labored sentencesThe word is περιόδια. I am not sure about the exact meaning of περιόδια: see the notes of Wolf and Schweig. you will take them and blot them out.
