Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
‘‘ γενέσθαι, δεῖ δὲ τὸν αἰῶνα μὴ εἶναι’ κατ᾽ Ἐπίκουρον.
εἰ γάρ ἐστι πέρας τῷ εἶναι τὸ μὴ εἶναι, τοῦτο δ᾽ ἀπέραντον καὶ ἀμετάστατον, εὕρηται κακὸν αἰώνιον ἡ τῶν ἀγαθῶν στέρησις, ἀναισθησίαν μηδέποτε
παυσομένην. καὶ σοφώτερος Ἡρόδοτος εἰπὼν
ὡς ‘ὁ θεὸς γλυκὺν γεύσας τὸν αἰῶνα φθονερὸς ἐν
’’
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.