Thus education in combination with the worst manners withers the mind (being without virtue). Scholarship at any rate avoided this on account of the king, who even now is still at work to adorn all learning, a lover of the Muses, since this man was familiar with scholarship and was greatly understanding of many things, and unsparingly gave money to the studious, so that they shall partake of studies whose fame is great. For upon no small rewards he ordered studies to flourish in both schools.