Then there's another tutor, too, no scholar, but very painstaking, though; he can teach you more than he knows himself.

He comes to the house on holidays and is always satisfied with whatever you pay him.

Some little time ago, I bought the kid some law books; I want him to have a smattering of the law for home use.

There's bread in that! As for literature, he's got enough of that in him already; if he begins to kick, I've concluded that I'll make him learn some trade; the barber's, say, or the auctioneer's, or even the lawyer's.
That's one thing no one but the devil can do him out of! 'Believe what your daddy says, Primigenius,' I din into his ears every day, 'whenever you learn a thing, it's yours.

Look at Phileros the attorney; he'd not be keeping the wolf from the door now if he hadn't studied.