Λυκοῦργος

Sections

1.1 – 1.2 1.3 – 1.4 2.1 – 2.2 2.3 – 3.2 3.3 – 3.4 3.5 – 4.1 4.2 – 4.4 4.5 – 5.2 5.3 – 5.4 5.5 – 5.6 5.7 – 5.8 6.1 – 6.2 6.3 – 6.3 6.4 – 7.1 7.2 – 7.3 8.1 – 8.3 8.4 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.3 9.4 – 10.1 10.2 – 10.3 11.1 – 11.2 11.3 – 11.4 12.1 – 12.3 12.4 – 12.5 12.6 – 12.7 13.1 – 13.3 13.4 – 13.6 14.1 – 14.2 14.3 – 14.4 15.1 – 15.2 15.3 – 15.4 15.5 – 15.7 15.8 – 15.9 15.10 – 16.1 16.2 – 16.3 16.4 – 16.5 16.6 – 17.1 17.2 – 17.3 17.4 – 18.1 18.2 – 18.3 18.4 – 19.1 19.2 – 19.4 20.1 – 20.3 20.4 – 20.6 21.1 – 21.3 21.4 – 22.1 22.2 – 22.4 22.5 – 23.1 23.2 – 24.1 24.2 – 24.4 25.1 – 25.3 25.4 – 25.5 26.1 – 26.2 26.3 – 26.4 27.1 – 27.2 27.3 – 28.1 28.2 – 28.3 28.4 – 28.5 28.6 – 29.1 29.2 – 29.3 29.4 – 29.5 29.6 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.3 30.4 – 30.5 30.6 – 31.1 31.2 – 31.3 31.4 – 31.5

İngilizce Yunanca

18.4 The boys’ lovers also shared with them in their honour or disgrace; and it is said that one of them was once fined by the magistrates because his favourite boy had let an ungenerous cry escape him while he was fighting. Moreover, though this sort of love was so approved among them that even the maidens found lovers in good and noble women, still, there was no jealous rivalry in it, but those who fixed their affections on the same boys made this rather a foundation for friendship with one another, and persevered in common efforts to make their loved one as noble as possible.

19.1 The boys were also taught to use a discourse which combined pungency with grace, and condensed much observation into a few words. His iron money, indeed, Lycurgus made of large weight and small value, as I have observed, Chapter ix. 1. but the current coin of discourse he adapted to the expression of deep and abundant meaning with simple and brief diction, by contriving that the general habit of silence should make the boys sententious and correct in their answers. For as sexual incontinence generally produces unfruitfulness and sterility, so intemperance in talking makes discourse empty and vapid.