previous next

Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics

δὲ βίον ἀλλακτέον ἕτερον 1 εἴπῃς, οἷον εἰς ἀπραγμοσύνην καὶ ἡσυχίαν ἐκ πολιτείας μεταβαλόμενος, ‘ πάλαι γ᾽ ἐχρῆν’ φησὶ ‘θορύβων ἡμᾶς ἀπηλλάχθαι καὶ φθόνων’ ἂν δὲ πάλιν ὁρμᾶν δοκῆς ἐπὶ τὸ πράττειν καὶ λέγειν, ὑπεφώνησεν ‘ ἄξια σαυτοῦ φρονεῖς: ἡ δ᾽ ἀπραγμοσύνη γλυκὺ μέν, ἀλλ᾽ ἄδοξον καὶ ταπεινόν’ εὐθὺς οὖν λέγειν χρὴ πρὸς τὸν τοιοῦτον
ἀλλοῖός; μοι , ξεῖνε, φάνης 2 νέον ἠὲ πάροιθεν
οὐ δέομαι φίλου συμμεθισταμένου καὶ συνεπινεύοντος γὰρ σκιὰ ταῦτα ποιεῖ μᾶλλον, ἀλλὰ συναληθεύοντος καὶ συνεπικρίνοντος;. εἷς μὲν οὖν τῶν ἐλέγχων τρόπος τοιοῦτός ἐστιν:

1 ἑτερον] del. Hirschigius

2 ξεῖνε φάνης Homerus π 181: ξεῖν᾽ ἐφάνης

Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1888. 1.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

This text was converted to electronic form by optical character recognition and has been proofread to a high level of accuracy.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

load Vocabulary Tool
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: