Well,
 Socrates ,
 I think you are right when you bid me try to begin
 every undertaking with the gods’ help, since the
 gods control the works of peace no less than of war.
 We will try, then, to do so. But now go back to the
 point where you broke off in your talk about estate
 management, and try to expound the subject
 completely step by step, since after hearing what
 you have said so far, I seem even now to discern
 rather more clearly than before what I must do to
 earn my living. I suggest then, resumed
 Socrates ,
 that we should first recapitulate those points of
 our discussion on which we have already reached
 agreement, in order that we may try to agree as
 thoroughly, if possible, when we go through the
 remaining steps.