of a bad master blessed with
good servants. The converse I certainly have seen ere now, a good master
and bad servants; but they were the sufferers, not he. [20] No, he who
would create a spirit of carefulness in others [21] must have the skill
himself to supervise the field of labour; to test, examine, scrutinise.
[22] He must be ready to requite where due the favour of a service well
performed, nor hesitate to visit the penalty of their deserts upon those
neglectful of their duty. [23] Indeed (he added), the answer of the
barbarian to the king seems aposite. You know the story, [24] how the
king had met with a good horse, but wished to give the creature flesh
and that without delay, and so asked some one reputed to be clever about
horses: "What will give him flesh most quickly?" To which the other:
"The master's eye." So, too, it strikes me, Socrates, there is nothing
like "the master's eye" to call forth latent qualities, and turn the
same to beautiful and good effect. [25]

[18] Or, "to give others skill in 'music.'" See Plat. "Rep." 455 E;
"Laws," 802 B. Al. "a man devoid of letters to make others
scholarly." See Plat. "Phaedr." 248 D.

[19] Lit. "when the teacher traces the outline of the thing to copy
badly." For {upodeiknuontos} see "Mem." IV. iii. 13; "Horsem." ii.
2. Cf. Aristot. "Oecon." i. 6; "Ath. Pol." 41. 17; and Dr. Sandys'
note ad loc.

[20] Or, "but they did not go scot-free"; "punishments then were
rife."

[21] Cf. Plat. "Polit." 275 E: "If we say either tending the herds, or
managing the herds, or having the care of them, that will include
all, and then we may wrap up the statesman with the rest, as the
argument seems to require."--Jowett.

[22] Or, "he must have skill to over-eye the field of labour, and be
scrutinous."

[23] "For every boon of service well performed he must be eager to
make requital to the author of it, nor hesitate to visit on the
heads of those neglectful of their duty a just recompense." (The
language is poetical.)

[24] See Aristot. "Oecon." i. 6; Aesch. "Pers." 165; Cato ap. Plin.
"H. N." xviii. 5. Cic. ap. Colum. iv. 18; ib. vi. 21; La Fontaine,
"L'Oeil du Maitre."

[25] Or, "so, too, in general it seems to me 'the master's eye' is
aptest to elicit energy to issue beautiful and good."

XIII

But now (I ventured), suppose you have presented strongly to the mind of
some one [1] the need o