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Plato to Dion of Syracuse wishes well-doing.

It has been plain, I believe, all along that I took a keen interest in the operations1 that have been carried out, and that I was most anxious to see them finally completed. In this I was mainly prompted

1 This refers to Dion's military operations in Sicily in 357 B.C., and perhaps later.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 7 translated by R.G. Bury. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.

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