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Xenophon, Memorabilia (ed. E. C. Marchant), Book 3, chapter 12 (search)
On noticing that Epigenes, one of his companions, was in poor condition, for a young man, he said: “You look as if you need exercise,i)diw/ths is one who is ignorant of any profession or occupation: i)diwtikw=s e)/xein here means to be ignorant of athletic training. Epigenes.”“Well,” he replied, “I'm not an athlete, Socrates.”“Just as much as the competitors entered for Olympia,” he retorted. “Or do you count the life and death struggle with their enemies, upon which, it may be, the Athenians will enter, but a small thing? Why, many, thanks to their bad condition, lose their life in the perils of war or save it disgracefully: many, just for this same cause, are taken prisoners, and then either pass the rest of their days, perhaps, in slavery of the hardest kind, or, after meeting with cruel sufferings and paying, sometimes, more than they have, live on, destitute and in misery. Many, again, by their bodily weakness earn infamy, being thought cowards. Or do you despise these
Xenophon, Memorabilia (ed. E. C. Marchant), Book 3, chapter 13 (search)
e was angry with his man.“Because he's a glutton and he's a fool,” said the other: “he's rapacious and he's lazy.”“Have you ever considered, then, which deserves the more stripes, the master or the man?” When someone was afraid of the journey to Olympia, he said:“Why do you fear the distance? When you are at home, don't you spend most of the day in walking about? on your way there you will take a walk before lunch, and another before dinner, and then take a rest. Don't you know that if you put together the walks you take in five or six days, you can easily cover the distance from Athens to Olympia? It is more comfortable, too, to start a day early rather than a day late, since to be forced to make the stages of the journey unduly long is unpleasant; but to take a day extra on the way makes easy going. So it is better to hurry over the start than on the road.” When another said that he was worn out after a long journey, he asked him whether he had carried a load.“Oh no,”