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τί δεῖ πρόχειρον ἔχειν ἐν ταῖς περιστάσεσιν.

ὅταν εἰσίῃς πρός τινα τῶν ὑπερεχόντων, μέμνησο ὅτι καὶ ἄλλος ἄνωθεν βλέπει τὰ γιγνόμενα καὶ ὅτι ἐκείνῳ σε δεῖ μᾶλλον ἀρέσκειν ἢ τούτῳ. [2] ἐκεῖνος οὖν σου πυνθάνεται ‘φυγὴν καὶ φυλακὴν καὶ δεσμὰ καὶ θάνατον καὶ ἀδοξίαν τί ἔλεγες ἐν τῇ σχολῇ;’ ‘ἐγὼ ἀδιάφορα.’ [3] ‘νῦν οὖν τίνα αὐτὰ λέγεις; μή τι ἐκεῖνα ἠλλάγη;’ ‘οὔ.’ ‘σὺ οὖν ἠλλάγης;’ ‘οὔ.’ ‘λέγε οὖν τίνα ἐστὶν ἀδιάφορα.’ ‘τὰ ἀπροαίρετα.’ ‘λέγε καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς.’ [4] ‘ἀπροαίρετα οὐδὲν πρὸς ἐμέ.’ ‘λέγε καὶ τὰ ἀγαθὰ τίνα ὑμῖν ἐδόκει;’ ‘προαίρεσις οἵα δεῖ καὶ χρῆσις φαντασιῶν.’ ‘τέλος δὲ τί;’ ‘τὸ σοὶ ἀκολουθεῖν.’ [5] ‘ταῦτα καὶ νῦν λέγεις;’ ‘ταὐτὰ καὶ νῦν λέγω.’ ἄπειθι λοιπὸν ἔσω θαρρῶν καὶ μεμνημένος τούτων καὶ ὄψει τί ἐστι νέος μεμελετηκὼς ἃ δεῖ ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἀμελετήτοις. [6] ἐγὼ μὲν νὴ τοὺς θεοὺς φαντάζομαι ὅτι πείσῃ τὸ τοιοῦτον ‘τί οὕτως μεγάλα καὶ πολλὰ παρασκευαζόμεθα πρὸς τὸ μηδέν; [7] τοῦτο ἦν ἡ ἐξουσία; τοῦτο τὰ πρόθυρα, οἱ κοιτωνῖται, οἱ ἐπὶ τῆς μαχαίρας; τούτων ἕνεκα τοὺς πολλοὺς λόγους ἤκουον; ταῦτα οὐδὲν ἦν, ἐγὼ δ᾽ ὡς μεγάλα παρεσκευαζόμην.’


Epicteti Dissertationes ab Arriano digestae. Epictetus. Heinrich Schenkl. editor. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1916.

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