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Φιλοπονηρίας ΚΘ᾽

ἔστι δὲ ἡ φιλοπονηρία ἐπιθυμία κακίας, ὁ δὲ φιλοπόνηρός [2] ἐστι τοιόσδε τις, οἷος ἐντυγχάνειν τοῖς ἡττημένοις καὶ δημοσίους ἀγῶνας ὠφληκόσι καὶ ὑπολαμβάνειν, ἐὰν τούτοις [3] χρῆται, ἐμπειρότερος γενήσεσθαι καὶ φοβερώτερος. καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς χρηστοῖς εἰπεῖν: 'ὡς φαίνεται,' καὶ φῆσαι, ὡς οὐδείς ἐστι χρηστός, καὶ ὁμοίους πάντας εἶναι, καὶ ἐπισκῶψαι δὲ [4] 'ὡς χρηστός ἐστι᾽. καὶ τὸν πονηρὸν δὲ εἰπεῖν ἐλεύθερον, ἐὰν βούληταί τις εἰς πεῖραν ἐλθεῖν, καὶ τὰ μὲν ἄλλα ὁμολογεῖν ἀληθῆ ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ λέγεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἔνια δὲ ἀγνοεῖν: φῆσαι γὰρ αὐτὸν εὐφυῆ καὶ φιλέταιρον καὶ ἐπιδέξιον: καὶ διατείνεσθαι δὲ ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ, ὡς οὐκ ἐντετύχηκεν [5] ἀνθρώπῳ ἱκανωτέρῳ. καὶ εὔνους δὲ εἶναι τῷ ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ λέγοντι ἢ ἐπὶ δικαστηρίῳ κρινομένῳ: καὶ πρὸς τοὺς καθημένους δὲ εἰπεῖν δεινὸς ὡς 'οὐ δεῖ τὸν ἄνδρα, ἀλλὰ τὸ πρᾶγμα κρίνεσθαι᾽. καὶ φῆσαι αὐτὸν κύνα εἶναι τοῦ δήμου: φυλάττειν γὰρ αὐτὸν πρὸς τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας: καὶ εἰπεῖν, ὡς 'οὐχ ἕξομεν τοὺς ὑπὲρ τῶν κοινῶν συναχθεσθησομένους, ἂν [6] τοὺς τοιούτους προώμεθα᾽. δεινὸς δὲ καὶ προστατῆσαι φαύλων καὶ συνεδρεῦσαι ἐν δικαστηρίοις ἐπὶ πονηροῖς πράγμασιν καὶ κρίσιν κρίνων ἐκδέχεσθαι τὰ ὑπὸ τῶν ἀντιδίκων λεγόμενα ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον.

[7] καὶ τὸ ὅλον ἡ φιλοπονηρία ἀδελφή ἐστι τῆς πονηρίας, καὶ ἀληθές ἐστι τὸ τῆς παροιμίας τὸ ὅμοιον πρὸς τὸ ὅμοιον πορεύεσθαι.

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

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