Letter 767

To Sosicles the Scholasticus [scholasticus: an advocate or trained lawyer]. Do not only make your own foot rare toward your friend, in obedience to the wise Solomon [Proverbs 25:17: "Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you"], but also induce your friend to set his foot but rarely toward you, lest one day, having had his fill of you, he come to hate you.

Μὴ μόνον τὸν σὸν πόδα σπάνιον πρὸς τὸν φίλον, εἴσαγε, πειθόμενος τῷ σοφῷ Σολομῶντι, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν φίλον παρασκεύαζε σπάνιαν πρὸς σὲ τὸν πόδα, αὐτοῦ εἰσφέρειν, μήποτε πλησθεὶς σου μισήσῃ σε.