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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.57.9–I.49.57.11
Ancient Greek
p. 141857.9
Τοὺς δέ γε ἀδικίας τε καὶ τυραννίδας καὶ ἔρεις πάσας προτετιμηκότας εἰς τὰ τῶν λύκων τε καὶ ἱεράκων καὶ ἰκτίνων γένη· ἢ ποῖ ἂν ἄλλοσέ φαμεν τὰς τοιαύτας ἰέναι;
Ἀμέλει, ἔφη ὁ Κέβης, εἰς τὰ τοιαῦτα.
57.10
Οὐκοῦν, ἦ δ᾽ ὅς, δῆλα δὴ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα, οἷ ἂν ἕκαστα ἴοι κατὰ τὰς [τῶν] αὐτῶν ὁμοιότητας τῆς μελέτης;
Δῆλον δή, ἔφη· πῶς δ᾽ οὔ;
57.11
Οὐκοῦν εὐδαιμονέστατοι, ἔφη, καὶ τούτων εἰσὶ καὶ εἰς βέλτιστον τόπον ἰόντες οἱ τὴν δημοτικήν τε καὶ πολιτικὴν ἀρετὴν ἐπιτετηδευκότες ἣν δὴ καλοῦσι σωφροσύνην καὶ δικαιοσύνην, ἐξ ἔθους τε καὶ μελέτης γεγονυῖαν ἄνευ φιλοσοφίας τε καὶ νοῦ;
Πῇ δὴ εὐδαιμονέστατοι;
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 141957.9 · Violence and predatory kinds
“And those who have preferred injustice, tyranny, and every kind of strife enter the kinds of wolves, hawks, and kites. Where else should we say such souls go?”
“Certainly,” Cebes said, “into such kinds.”1700
57.10 · Habit and likeness
“Then,” he said, “the other cases too are clear: where each would go according to [the] similarities of their habits?”
“Clearly,” he said. “How could it be otherwise?”1701
57.11 · Ordinary civic virtue
“Then,” he said, “the happiest among these, and those going to the best destination, are those who have practiced the ordinary civic virtue that people call moderation and justice, produced by habit and practice without philosophy and understanding?”
“In what way are they the happiest?”1702
Socrates
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