the contingency of his possessions. Therefore he was bent down by fear, and expressed this sufficiently by a common saying: The man without faith is prudent in his own folly.’ (27) When he and the others had smiled, I said: ‘Let us consider this a little more carefully, since he [Orata], though imbued with fear, was not in want; from which point rises our question. For, to be in want consists in not possessing, not in fearing the loss of your possessions. He was miserable because of fear, not because