43. Such things did his Platos teach him, and his Chrysippuses, and the far-famed Walk, and the grave Porch, send those who mouth so grandiloquently this, the equality of Geometry, and the arguments about Justice, and the duty to prefer receiving wrong to the committing wrong! this, his fine teachers, and the accomplices and lawgivers of his reign----people that he had picked up out of the highways and the pits; of whom he could not approve the conduct, though he admired their loquacity, and probably not so much this as their mere impiety, a fitting counsellor and instructor as to what ought to be done, and what not.

ΜΓʹ. Ταῦτα Πλάτωνες αὐτὸν, καὶ Χρύσιπποι, καὶ ὁ λαμπρὸς Περίπατος καὶ ἡ σεμνὴ Στοὰ, καὶ οἱ τὰ κομψὰ λαρυγγίζοντες ἐξεπαίδευσαν: ταῦτα ἡ τῆς γεωμετρίας ἰσότης, καὶ οἱ περὶ δικαιοσύνης λόγοι, καὶ τὸ χρῆναι ἀδικεῖσθαι μᾶλλον αἱρεῖσθαι ἢ ἀδικεῖν: ταῦτα οἱ γενναῖοι διδάσκαλοι, καὶ τῆς βασιλείας συναγωνισταί τε καὶ νομοθέται, οὓς ἐκ τῶν τριόδων καὶ τῶν βαράθρων ἑαυτῷ συνελέξατο: ὧν οὐ τὸν τρόπον ἐπῄνεσεν, ἀλλὰ τὴν εὐγλωττίαν ἐθαύμασε: καὶ οὐδὲ ταύτην ἴσως, ἀλλὰ ἀσέβειαν μόνην, ὡς σύμβουλον ἱκανὴν καὶ τῶν πρακτέων καὶ μὴ, διδάσκαλον.