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but bloom afresh — their praise resounded on the lips of men forever. Toils like these, Ο son of noble par- ents, Heracles, it is yours to meet with, and having endured, to enter into the heritage assured you of transcendent happiness.' "

SOCRATES AND CHAERECRATES

From the Memorabilia, Book II. iii. §§ 1-19.

At another time the differences between two bro- thers named Chaerephon and Chaerecrates, both well known to him, had drawn his attention ; and on see- ing the younger of the two he thus addressed him : —

Socrates. Tell me, Chaerecrates, you are not, I take it, one of those strange people who believe that goods are better and more precious than a brother; and that, too, although the former are but senseless chattels which need protection, the latter a sensitive and sensible being who can afford it ; and what is more, he is himself alone, whilst as for them their name is legion. And here' again is a marvellous thing : that a man should count his brother a loss, because the goods of his brother are not his ; but he does not count his fellow-citizens loss, and yet their possessions are not his ; only it seems in their case he has wits to see that to dwell securely with many and have enougfh is better than to own the whole wealth of a community and to live in dangerous isolation ; but this same doctrine as applied to brothers they ignore. Again, if a man have the means, he will purchase domestic slaves, because he wants assistants in his work ; he will acquire friends, because he needs their support ; but this brother of his — who