the worse things as a gift, the better man the better as a mark of
honour. For I ask you, Socrates, how can the good avoid despondency
seeing that the work is wrought by their own hands alone, in spite of
which these villains who will neither labour nor face danger when
occasion calls are to receive an equal guerdon with themselves? And
just as I cannot bring myself in any sort of way to look upon the
better sort as worthy to receive no greater honour than the baser, so,
too, I praise my bailiffs when I know they have apportioned the best
things among the most deserving. And if I see that some one is
receiving preference by dint of flatteries or like unworthy means, I
do not let the matter pass; I reprimand my bailiff roundly, and so
teach him that such conduct is not even to his interest.

[5] {oukoun}. "This, then, is my major premiss: the dumb animal . . ."
(lit. "the rest of animals").

[6] {ta kunidia} possibly implies "performing poodles."

[7] {te gnome . . . te glotte}, i.e. mental impression and expression,
"mind and tongue."

[8] Or, "to run round and round and turn heels over head." Al. "dive
for objects."

[9] "Logic, argument." Or, "a creature more compliant; merely by a
word demonstrate to him . . ."

[10] Cf. Plat. "Rep." 591 C.

[11] See Pater, "Plato and Platonism," "Lacedaemon," p. 196 foll.