Book A
22
As if you were begotten or born in a ship, you would not be eager to be the master of it (κυβερνήτης), so—.The other member of the comparison has been omitted by some accident in the MSS. Wolf in his Latin version supplied by conjecture the omission in this manner: ita neque in terris divitiae tibi expe tendae sunt. Schweig. For neither there (in the ship) will the ship naturally be connected with you, nor wealth in the other case; but reason is every where naturally connected with you. As then reason is a thing which naturally belongs to you and is born in you, consider this also as specially your own and take care of it.
