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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: os tous dikaious kai sophous kai kosmious
monous badioimen.}
Stob. gives for {kasmious} {alkimous}.
[2] Or, "for fear of machinations." But the word is suggestive of
mechanical inventions also, like those of Archimedes in connection
with a later Hiero (see Plut. "Marcel." xv. foll.); or of
Lionardo, or of Michael Angelo (Symonds, "Renaissance in Italy,"
"The Fine Arts," pp. 315, 393).
And when he has secretly and silently made away with all such people
through terror, whom has he to fall back upon to be of use to him,
save only the unjust, the incontinent, and the slavish-natured?[3] Of
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