This text is part of:
σωφροσύνης τίνι ἧττον προσήκειν: who has a less share of discretion? For the gen. with verbs of sharing, see G. 1097, 2; H. 737. αὐτὰ τὰ ἐναντία: pred., the direct opposites (of each other). τοῦ ἐπιμελεῖσθαι: objective gen. with κωλυτικώτερον. ὧν προσήκει: “duties.” τοῦ ποιοῦντος, πείθοντος, ἀναγκάζοντος: for the participle used substantively, see on τὸ κρατοῦν i. 2. 43. τοῖς σωφρονοῦσι τὰ ἐναντία: the opposite of what prudent men do. For the condensed form of expression, see on θεοῖς ταῦτα πάντα ἔοικε iv. 4. 24. οἴει τι: the τὶ shows that the preceding participles are neuter.
Xenophon: Memorabilia. Josiah Renick Smith. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1903.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This text was converted to electronic form by professional data entry and has been proofread to a medium level of accuracy.
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.