But I need hardly go so far back. Epicurus assuredly rejoiced in joy—pleasure was the chief Good in his eyes; yet in his most earnest letters (which are not very numerous), and in those to his most intimate friends, he starts with Hail. And in tragedy and the old comedy you will constantly find it used quite at the beginning. You remember, Hail to thee, joy be thine— which puts health before rejoicing clearly enough. And says Alexis: All hail, my lord; after long time thou comest. Again Achaeus: I come in sorry plight, yet wish thee health. And Philemon: Health first I ask, and next prosperity, Joy thirdly, and to owe not any man. As for the writer of the drinking-song mentioned in Plato, what says he?—‘Best is health, and second beauty, and third wealth’; joy he never so much as names. I need hardly adduce the trite saw: Chief of them that blessings give, Health, with thee I mean to live. But, if Health is chief, her gift, which is the enjoyment of health, should rank before other Goods.