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" Because " " sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, them to do evil." therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in CONCERNING THE DELAY OF THE DEITY IN PUNISHING THE WICKED. DRAMATIS PERSONAL. PLUTARCH. PATROCLEAS, his son=in=law. TIMON, his brother. OLYMPICHUS. The scene is the portico of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. The tract is dedicated to a certain Quintus, whose name seems to indicate that he was a Roman, but of whom nothing defi nite is known. When Epicurus had thus spoken, O Quintus, and before any one had replied, he went hurriedly away, as we were now at the end of the porch. We stood for some time in speechless wonder at the strange con duct of the man and looking at one another, then turned back to resume our walk. Thereupon Patrocleas first broke the silence: "Pray, what shall we do?" said he, Shall we drop the inquiry, or shall we answer the arguments of the speaker who is present as if he were?" It would not be fitting not leave the dart he discharged, as he departed, sticking in the wound. Brasidas, as we are told, drew the shaft from his body, and with the same weapon slew the man who had hit him. 162 to It is not worth our while.
" " The Delay of the Deity of course, to defend ourselves against all those who assail us with ill-grounded or fallacious arguments, but it will suffice us if we cast them from us before they become firmly fixed in our minds." there then." said I, What was in what he said that most impressed you? For many things and without any order, one here, another there, the man kept charging against Providence, with anger and vituperation at the same time." 2. Hereupon Patrocleas said: The tardiness and delay of the Deity in punishing the wicked seems to me a matter of special importance; and now, by the arguments that have been advanced, I have been led anew and, as it were, a stranger, to the question; but long ago I was offended when I read in Euripides, He procrastinates, and this is the manner of the Deity. Yet God ought, least of all things, to be slack towards the wicked, as they are neither slack nor dila tory about doing evil, but are impelled by their unre strained passions to acts of injustice. And in truth, the retribution, which Thucydides says follows close upon the commission of a crime, forthwith bars the way for those who usually prosper in succesful vil lainy. For there is no debt like overdue justice that makes him who has been wronged so faint-hearted and discouraged, while it emboldens the wicked man in his audacity and violence; but the punishments that follow close upon the commission of crimes are re straints upon those who are meditating wrongs against others, and there is the greatest consolation 163
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