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LYCINUS

But you have not said how long, to give it a date.

HERMOTIMUS

I don’t know myself exactly, Lycinus. Not more than twenty years at a guess. After that I shall surely be on the top.

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LYCINUS

Good Heavens! As long as that!

HERMOTIMUS

Yes, Lycinus; my struggles are for great prizes.

LYCINUS

Perhaps so. But those twenty years—has your teacher promised you that length of life? If he has he must be more than a wise man—a prophet, or an oracle-monger, or an expert in Chaldean lore, as well—they say that they know this sort of thing. For, if it is not certain that you will live to reach Virtue, it is quite unreasonable to take all this trouble and wear yourself out night and day, not knowing whether Fate as you near the top will come and pull you down by the foot with your hopes unfulfilled.

HERMOTIMUS

Away with you! That, Lycinus, is blasphemy. May I live to enjoy happiness through wisdom for just one day!

LYCINUS

Would that repay you for all your labours—just one day?

HERMOTIMUS

For me even a moment is enough.

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