Kitap 9
1.2
Again he would say: There is more need to extinguish insolence than an outbreak of fire,Fr. 43 D., 103 B. and The people must fight for the law as for citywalls.Fr. 44 D., 100 B. He attacks the Ephesians, too, for banishing his friend Hermodorus: he says: The Ephesians would do well to end their lives, every grown man of them, and leave the city to beardless boys, for that they have driven out Hermodorus, the worthiest man among them, saying, We will have none who is worthiest among us; or if there be any such, let him go elsewhere and consort with others.Fr. 121 D., 114 B. And when he was requested by them to make laws, he scorned the request because the state was already in the grip of a bad constitution.
1.3
He would retire to the temple of Artemis and play at knuckle-bones with the boys; and when the Ephesians stood round him and looked on, Why, you rascals, he said, are you astonished? Is it not better to do this than to take part in your civil life?
