24 Let not these thoughts afflict you, I shall live unhonored and be nobody nowhere. For if want of honor (atimia) is an evil, you cannot be in evil through the means (fault) of another any more than you can be involved in anything base. Is it then your business to obtain the rank of magistrate, or to be received at a banquet? By no means. How then can this be want of honor (dishonor)? And how