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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: you from to-morrow. To-morrow is a good day to commence a course of
virtue, is it not?
[2] Cf. Plat. "Rep." 566 A, "a tyrant full grown" (Jowett).
[3] Cf. Plat. "Phaed." 70 C; Aristoph. "Clouds," 1480.
[4] Or rather, "a measurer of air"--i.e. devoted not to good sound
solid "geometry," but the unsubstantial science of "aerometry."
See Aristoph. "Clouds," i. 225; Plat. "Apol." 18 B, 19 B; Xen.
"Symp." vi. 7.
[5] Nothing is known of this person.
You are pleased to jest, Socrates (Ischomachus replied), in spite of
which I will recount to you those habits and pursuits by aid of which
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