Up to this time he had allowed Dion to remain in possession of his property
and to receive the income from it. But not long after the foregoing events, as
if he had entirely forgotten his letter to that effect, he no longer allowed
Dion's trustees to send him remittances to the Peloponnese, on the pretence
that the owner of the property was not Dion but Dion's son, his own nephew, of
whom he himself was legally the trustee. These were the actual facts which
occurred up to the point which we have reached. They had opened my eyes as to
the value of Dionysios' desire for philosophy, and I had every right to
complain, whether I wished to do so or not. Now by this time it was summer and
the season for sea voyages; therefore I decided that I must not be vexed with
Dionysios rather than with myself and those who had forced me to come for the
third time into the strait of Scylla, -