(8) µ? ??? ße?t?st? ? ?a? ??s?te?est?t? pas?? ? e?? a?t?? ??a????s?? ?a? t? 
p??s??e?? t??? a?t?? p???µas??, ??? t´ ?? ?aß????? t??? t?? ?? ??? t´ 
?????s?? ??? t´ ?? st?at?p?d? ??? t´ ?? ??s? µ???? ?a? µ????.

I  [Dion Chrys.] am therefore inclined to think that the best and most profitable 
kind of retirement is retirement into oneself and giving attention to one's own 
concerns, whether one happens to be in Babylon, or in Athens, or in a military camp, 
or alone on a little island.

Trad. anglaise : J.W. COHOON - H. Lamar CROSBY, Dio Chrysostom.  
Vol. II. London, Heinemann, 1939