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LYCINUS

That is a very wonderful prize, Hermotimus, and I fancy you are near winning it, to judge by the time you spend on your philosophical studies and also the considerable energy you seem to have devoted for so long. If I remember, it must be nigh on twenty years that I have seen you doing nothing but going to the teachers, and usually bent over a book and writing notes on the lectures, always pale and wasted with studying. I suppose even your dreams give you no rest, you are so wrapped up in it. So, when I consider this, I feel that you will not be long in reaching happiness, unless it has been your companion for years and we have missed seeing it.

HERMOTIMUS

How can that be, Lycinus? I am just beginning to get a glimpse of my way there. Virtue, says Hesiod, Hesiod, Works and Days, 289. lives far away, and the path to her is long and steep and rough, with plenty of sweat for travellers.

LYCINUS

Have you not sweated and travelled enough, Hermotimus?

HERMOTIMUS

No, I tell you. I couldn’t be other than perfectly happy if I were at the top. At this moment I am still beginning, Lycinus.

LYCINUS

But this same Hesiod says that the beginning is half-way there, Hesiod, Works and Days, 40. so that we should not wrong you if we said that you were half-way up.

HERMOTIMUS

No, not even that yet. That would be a great achievement.

LYCINUS

Well, where on the road may we put you?

HERMOTIMUS

Still down in the foothills, Lycinus, though lately struggling on. It is slippery and rough and needs a hand to help.