(Extract from a letter sent by Apollonius to Estiaeus)

I am rather far from my ancestral city, by heaven's will, but I recently began to think about the city's affairs. Fate travels towards the life's end of the men "who have obtained the highest office". Hereafter boys will rule, and soon after them youths. Then no doubt there is danger that a government of the young may stumble. But you need feel no danger, since we have lived our lives.