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??? µ?? ??? ??µa? se µ?d?? de?ses?a? µa?te?a? ???? ????ta. ?a? ??? d? ??a,
??? se ?e?e?s? ???fe?? ?a? ??a?????s?e?? ????? µ? ??aµµat???? ??ta, ??
d???s?. ???µµata d? e?d??, ?a? µ? t?? ?e?? ?e?e???t?? ?at? t??p?? ????e??
?a? ??a???s?. ?µ???? d? ???? ?t???? p??tte??, ??? s?µß???e?s? s?? µ?
?p?staµ???, ??? ???? te ?se?. ?a? ??? ????? ?? d???s? µ? ?p?st?µe???, ??d´ ??
?at? t?? ?µ??a? ???st?? t?? ?p???? ??????? ?a? s?? µ??? s??????. ???? d?
???? ???s? ?p? sea?t?? ?, t? s?? p?a?t??? ?st? ?a? ?p??.
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For I am persuaded that you will have no need of consulting oracles if you have
intelligence. Why just consider ! If the god bids you to read and write correctly when
you have no knowledge of letters, you will not be able to do so; but if you know your
letters, you will read and write well enough, even without any command from the
god. In the same way, if he advises you to do anything else when you do not know
how, you will not be in a condition to obey. You will not be able to live properly,
either, if you do not know how, even though you importune Apollo day after day
and he gives you all his time. But if possessed of intelligence, you will know of
yourself what you ought to do and how to go about it.
Trad. anglaise : J.W. COHOON - H. Lamar CROSBY, Dio Chrysostom.
Vol. I. London, Heinemann, 1940 |
