Panegyricus

[1] Many times have I wondered at those who first convoked the national assemblies and established the athletic games,^[1] amazed that they should have thought the prowess of men’s bodies to be deserving of so great bounties, while to those who had toiled in private for the public good and trained their own minds so as to be able to help also their fellow-men they apportioned no reward whatsoever,^[2]