πρῶτον μὲν, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, χάρις πολλὴ τοῖς θεοῖς, οἳ
τοὺς μὲν πρότερον θρασυνομένους καὶ μηδ᾽ ὄνομα εἰρήνης
ἐθέλοντας ἀνασχέσθαι, πολλάκις ἡμῶν προκαλουμένων
αὐτοὺς, ὑπὲρ εἰρήνης δεῦρ᾽ ἥκειν παρεσκεύασαν ἐν τούτῳ
τῷ σχήματι, τῇ πόλει δ᾽ ἀπέδωκαν ἐξ ἀρχῆς βουλεύσασθαι περὶ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν ὅπως ἂν πείσησθε. ἄξιον δὲ
χρήσασθαι τῷ καιρῷ καὶ τὴν μὲν τούτων ἀγνωμοσύνην
καὶ φιλονεικίαν φυλάξασθαι, τοῖς δ᾽ ὑμετέροις αὐτῶν
ἤθεσι καὶ τρόποις ἐμμεῖναι. ἔστι μὲν οὖν παλαιός τις
λόγος ὡς ἄρα οὐ ῥᾴδιον εὖ πράττοντας εὖ φρονεῖν, ἀλλ᾽
οἱ πολλοὶ χείρους ὑπὸ τῆς τύχης γίγνονται: ἐγὼ δ᾽ ὅσοι
μὲν, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, παρ᾽ ἀξίαν ἢ παρ᾽ ἐλπίδας εὐτυχοῦσιν,
τούτους μὲν εἰκός τι πάσχειν ὑπολαμβάνω μὴ δυναμένους
χρῆσθαι μείζοσιν ἢ καθ᾽ αὑτοὺς πράγμασιν, ὅσοις δὲ
πλεῖστα μὲν τῶν Ἑλλήνων ὑπάρχει κατωρθωκέναι, οὐκ
ἐλάττω δὲ τούτων εὐβουλίας σύμβολα πᾶσι παρεσχῆσθαι,
λόγος οὐ λείπεται ταυτὸν τοῖς πολλοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἀνοήτοις
παθεῖν. ἔστι δ᾽ οὐ περὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος μόνον ἡμῖν ἡ [p. 592]
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
Aristides, Aelius. Aristides. ex recensione Guilielmi Dindorfii. Leipzig. Weidmann. 1829. 1-2.
Google Digital Humanities Awards Program provided support for entering this text.
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.