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    Plutarch, Lives (ed. Bernadotte Perrin)

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    Periklês

    I. xenous tinas en Rhômêi plousious kunôn tekna kai pithêkôn en tois kolpois peripherontas kai agapôntas idôn ho Kaisar, hôs eoiken, êrôtêsen ei paidia par' autois ou tiktousin hai gunaikes, hêgemonikôs sphodra nouthetêsas tous to phusei philêtikon en hêmin kai philostorgon eis thêria katanaliskontas anthrôpois opheilomenon. [2] ar' oun, epei philomathes ti kektêtai kai philotheamon hêmôn hê psuchê phusei, logon echei psegein tous katachrômenous toutôi pros ta mêdemias axia spoudês akousmata kai theamata, tôn de kalôn kai ôphelimôn paramelountas; têi men gar aisthêsei kata pathos tês plêgês antilambanomenêi tôn prostunchanontôn isôs anankê pan to phainomenon, an te chrêsimon an t' achrêston êi, theôrein, [3] tôi nôi d' hekastos ei bouloito chrêsthai, kai trepein heauton aei kai metaballein rhaista pros to dokoun pephuken, hôste chrê diôkein to beltiston, hina mê theôrêi monon, alla kai trephêtai tôi theôrein. hôs gar ophthalmôi chroa prosphoros hês to anthêron hama kai terpnon anazôpurei kai trephei tên opsin, houtô tên dianoian epagein dei theamasin ha tôi chairein pros to oikeion autên agathon ekkalei.

    tauta de estin en tois ap' aretês ergois,

    [4] ha kai zêlon tina kai prothumian agôgon eis mimêsin empoiei tois historêsasin: epei tôn g' allôn ouk euthus akolouthei tôi thaumasai to prachthen hormê pros to praxai: pollakis de kai tounantion chairontes tôi ergôi tou dêmiourgou kataphronoumen, hôs epi tôn murôn kai tôn halourgôn toutois men hêdometha, tous de bapheis kai murepsous aneleutherous hêgoumetha kai banausous. [5] dio kalôs men Antisthenês akousas hoti spoudaios estin aulêtês Ismênias, “all' anthrôpos,” ephê, “mochthêros: ou gar an houtô spoudaios ên aulêtês:” ho de Philippos pros ton huion epiterpôs en tini potôi psêlanta kai technikôs eipen: “ouk aischunêi kalôs houtô psallôn;” arkei gar, an basileus akroasthai psallontôn scholazêi, kai polu nemei tais Mousais heterôn agônizomenôn ta toiauta theatês gignomenos.

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    Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1. Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 2. Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3. Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 4.
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    ISBN: 0674990528, 0674991133, 0674991141, 0674990536, 0674990722, 0674990897, 0674990978, 0674991095, 0674991109, 0674991117, 0674991125

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