Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
[3]
αὐτὸς μὲν γὰρ εἰς ἀρετῆς καὶ δεινότητος
μερίδα τὸ ψεύσασθαι τιθέμενος λόγον οὐδένα τῶν πρὸς τὴν σύγκλητον
ὡμολογημένων ἕξειν ἔμελλε, τὸν δὲ Μέτελλον εἰδὼς βέβαιον ἄνδρα καὶ
τὴν ‘αλήθειαν ἀρχὴν μεγάλης ἀρετῆς’ κατὰ Πίνδαρον
ἡγούμενον ἐβούλετο τῇ πρὸς τὴν σύγκλητον ἀρνήσει προληφθέντα καὶ μὴ
δεξάμενον τὸν ὅρκον εἰς ἀνήκεστον ἐμβαλεῖν πρὸς τὸν δῆμου ἔχθραν. ὃ
καὶ συνέβη.
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.