I have been thinking, as I write, how happily everything has fallen out for you. The wealth which could only have been acquired forcibly and despotically and at the cost of much hatred, has been left to you by your father, but to use it honorably and for the good of mankind has devolved upon you Cf. Isoc. 9.25 for a somewhat similar passage. ; and to this task you should devote yourself with great diligence.