“I shall first tell you what equipment you must
yourself bring with you from home for the journey,
and how you must provision yourself so that you can
finish it soonest. Then giving you my personal
instruction along the road, partly by example set
for you while you proceed, and partly by precept,
before sunset I shall make you a public speaker,
superior to them all, just like myself—indubitably



 

first, midmost and last I.e, the others are not in it with him. Compare Demosthenes 25, 8: “all such beasts, of whom he is midmost and last and first.” of all who undertake to make
speeches. 
“Bring with you, then, as the principal thing, ignorance; secondly, recklessness, and thereto effrontery
and shamelessness. Modesty, respectability, selfrestraint, and blushes may be left at home, for they
are useless and somewhat of a hindrance to the
matter in hand. But you need also a very loud
voice, a shameless singing delivery, and a gait like
mine. They are essential indeed, and sometimes
sufficient in themselves. Compare the conversation between Demosthenes and the sausage-seller in Aristophanes, Knights, 150-235. Let your clothing be
gaily-coloured, or else white, a fabric of Tarentine
manufacture, so that your body will show through;
and wear either high Attic sandals of the kind that
women wear, with many slits, or else Sicyonian
boots, trimmed with strips of white felt. Have also
many attendants, and always a book in hand.