tákh' oûn àn hupò philotimías epískhoi hēmîn àn toû gráphein
quickly so IRR under ambition.GEN.SG hold.back.3SG.AOR.OPT us.DAT IRR the.N.GEN.SG write.PRS.INF
So perhaps out of pride he may refrain from writing to us.' (Plato, Phaedrus 257c)