My reply would be that it was not my work.

If a man happens to be born to a job he is not in the least fitted for, that's the affair of Providence.

Providence bungled it when he, she, or it--take which pronoun you like--[Greek: tyche], as you and I know, is feminine--made me a landowner.

My proper job was to dig up and decipher what is left of the Greeks.

And if any one says that the two jobs are not _tanti_, and the landowning job is more important than the other, I disagree with him entirely, and it would be impossible for him to prove it.