Is, then, Vice such a thing that it needs Fortune’s help to produce unhappiness? How can that be? Vice does not raise up a rough and stormy sea, she does not gird the skirts of lonely mountains with ambushes of robbers along the way, she does not make clouds of hail to burst on fruitful plains, she does not bring in a Meletus or an AnytusCf. 475 e, supra. or a CallixenusCf. Xenophon, , i. 7. 8. ff. as accusers, she does not take away wealth, she does not debar from the praetorship, in order to make men unhappy. Yet she dismays men who are rich, prosperous, and heirs to fortunes; on land and on sea she insinuates herself into them and clings to them, sinking deep into them through evil lusts, firing them with anger, crushing them with superstitious fears, shattering them with the eyes...The interpretation of this last phrase is quite uncertain: perhaps tearing them to pieces with envy, or making them ridiculous with envy.