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 you; to attempt It and fail is unsafe. As for him, do not mourn or lament him, nor seek to alter what fate has ordained for him. The body of Stesichorus is dead; but his name, glorious in life and blessed in memory, shall be received and consecrated by endless time. As for his songs and epics and poems of all kinds I recommend you to inscribe them publicly in all the temples and privately each in his own house. Stesichorus will be lost to our sight only when aught of his works is not remembered. Make it your care also to transmit those works to the rest of mankind, knowing that the admiration of all shall accrue even more to the city which produced him than to their author.

If your fear of the life which a prince leads makes you afraid to send Paurolas to Agrigentum I sympathise with you, as a woman and a mother, in your anxiety for a loved son. If, however, you claim to keep him to yourself as though you had brought him into the world