I have already heard
 enough, I think,
 Socrates ,
 to convince me that it is in the highest degree
 honourable, good and pleasant to get a living by
 husbandry. But you told me that you have discovered
 the reasons why some farmers are so successful that
 husbandry yields them all they need in abundance,
 and others are so inefficient that they find farming
 unprofitable. I should like to hear the reasons in
 each case, in order that we may do what is good and
 avoid what is harmful. Well then, Critobulus, I
 propose to give you a complete account of an
 interview I once had with a man whom I took to be
 really one of those who are justly styled
 gentlemen. I should greatly like to
 hear it,
 Socrates ,
 for I long to deserve that title myself.