{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/app/app84.htm","path":"cla/app/app84.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/app/app84.htm","text":"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, by Kathleen Freeman, [1948]\nThe Anonymous Writer Quoted by Iamblichus\nAn ethico-political essay in literary Attic, believed to belong to the time of the Peloponnesian War.\nIt deals with success; the factors necessary for its achievement (natural endowment, good will, industry, an early start); how to use success when attained; the need for self-control, which means being superior to money but generous with soul (life); the disadvantages of self-aggrandizement, and the advantages of obedience to law; the evil of tyranny, which arises from lawlessness.","title":"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: 89. The Anonymous Writer Quoted by Iamblichus","type":"page"}