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ἀναισθησίας ΙΔ᾽

ἔστι δὲ ἡ ἀναισθησία, ὡς ὅρῳ εἰπεῖν, βραδυτὴς ψυχῆς [2] ἐν λόγοις καὶ πράξεσιν, ὁ δὲ ἀναίσθητος τοιοῦτός τις, οἷος λογισάμενος ταῖς ψήφοις καὶ κεφάλαιον ποιήσας ἐρωτᾶν [3] τὸν παρακαθήμενον: 'τί γίγνεται᾽; καὶ δίκην φεύγων καὶ ταύτην εἰσιέναι μέλλων ἐπιλαθόμενος εἰς ἀγρὸν πορεύεσθαι. [4] καὶ θεωρῶν ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ μόνος καταλείπεσθαι καθεύδων. καὶ [5] πολλὰ φαγών, τῆς νυκτὸς ἀναστὰς ὡς ἐπὶ θάκου ὑπὸ κυνὸς τῆς [6] τοῦ γείτονος δηχθῆναι. καὶ λαβών τι καὶ ἀποθεὶς αὐτός, [7] τοῦτο ζητεῖν καὶ μὴ δύνασθαι εὑρεῖν. καὶ ἀπαγγέλλοντος αὐτῷ, ὅτι τετελεύτηκέ τις αὐτοῦ τῶν φίλων, ἵνα παραγένηται, [8] σκυθρωπάσας καὶ δακρύσας εἰπεῖν: 'ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ.' δεινὸς δὲ καὶ ἀπολαμβάνων ἀργύριον ὀφειλόμενον μάρτυρας παραλαβεῖν. [9] καὶ χειμῶνος ὄντος μάχεσθαι τῷ παιδί, ὅτι σικύους [10] οὐκ ἠγόρασεν. καὶ τὰ παιδία ἑαυτοῦ παλαίειν ἀναγκάζων [11] καὶ τροχάζειν [καὶ] εἰς κόπον ἐμβαλεῖν. καὶ ἐν ἀγρῷ αὐτὸς φακῆν ἕψων δὶς ἅλας εἰς τὴν χύτραν ἐμβαλὼν ἄβρωτον [12] ποιῆσαι. καὶ ὕοντος τοῦ Διὸς εἰπεῖν: 'ἡδύ γε τῶν ἄστρων [13] νομίζει,' ὅτι δὴ καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι λέγουσι πίσσης. καὶ λέγοντός τινος: 'πόσους οἴει κατὰ τὰς Ἱερὰς πύλας ἐξενηνέχθαι νεκρούς;᾽ πρὸς τοῦτον εἰπεῖν: 'ὅσοι ἐμοὶ καὶ σοὶ γένοιντο.'

Characters. Theophrastus. Hermann Diels. Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1909.

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