Silence After the Clamors

They try to reduce the malevolent to quiet and a saner mind by their silence (just as physicians do with the phrenetic), rather than to provoke them by longer responses—which they could undoubtedly provide as truthful—to an affect of increased bile. In the meantime, although they do not need our patronage or office, nor do I expect anything from them except the goodwill that the good freely offer to the good, I could not refrain from casting my vote for the truth, lest it be seen as oppressed by the malice of the ignorant, who do not know how to write the letter Theta the 'theta' was used in Greek courts to signify a death sentence or condemnation, rather than as perfected by the candor of those who think correctly. For there are many to that cobbler, who, being illiterate, [dares to] judge Aristides the Just.