Dion

as soon as peace was made he would summon Dion home, and he asked him to be quiet, and to attempt no revolution, and to say no evil of him to the Greeks.

This Plato tried to effect, and kept Dion with him in the Academy, where he turned his attention to philosophy.

Dion dwelt in the upper city of Athens[*](The upper city, as distinguished from the Piraeus.) with Callippus, one of his acquaintances, but for diversion he bought a country-place, and afterwards, when he sailed to Sicily, he gave this to Speusippus,

who was his most intimate friend at Athens. For Plato desired that Dion’s disposition should be tempered and sweetened by association with men of charming presence who indulged seasonably in graceful pleasantries.

And such a man was Speusippus; wherefore Timon, in his Silli, spoke of him as

good at a jest.