Kitap 8
832
Ath. Well, how could I describe otherwise than as utterly unfortunate men who are compelled to go through life with hungeri.e. for gold. Cp. Virgil’s auri sacra fames. always in their own souls?
832
Clin. This, then, is one cause: what is the second cause you speak of, Stranger?
832
Ath. You are right in reminding me.
832
Meg. One cause, as you assert, is this lifelong insatiable pursuit, which wholly engrosses each man, and hinders each and all from rightly practicing military operations. Be it so: now tell us the second cause.
832
Ath. Do you think that I am delaying to do so because I am at a loss?
832
Meg. No; but we think that, owing to a sort of hatred against the character you describe, you are castigating it more severely than is required by the argument now on hand.
832
Ath. Your rebuke is just, Strangers; you want, it seems, to hear what comes next.
832
Clin. Only say on.
