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though it seems likely that one of the Superior Powers was contriving at that time to lay the foundation of the events which have now taken place in regard to Dion and in regard to Syracuse; and of still more events, as is to be feared, unless you now hearken to the counsel I offer you now, for the second time.1What, then, do I mean by saying that my arrival in Sicily on that occasion was
1 The first occasion being at Olympia in 360 B.C.; cf. Plat. L. 7.350b ff.