Yes, my promise goes to that extent in its
generosity; A quotation from Demosthenes, Phil. 1, 44, 15. but in the name of Friendship More literally, Friendship’s patron; 7. ¢. Zeus. do
not disbelieve me, when I say that I shall show



 

you that its attainment is at once easy and pleasant.
Why should you? Hesiod was given a leaf or two
from Helicon, and at once he became a poet instead
of a shepherd and sang the pedigrees of gods and
heroes under the inspiration of the Muses. Theogony, 30-34. The Muses plucked a branch of laurel and gave it him as a staff of office (oxjrrpov). Is it
impossible, then, to become a public speaker —something far inferior to the grand style of poetry—in
an instant, if one could find out the quickest way?