Σόλων

Sections

1.1 – 1.3 1.4 – 2.2 2.3 – 3.1 3.2 – 3.4 3.5 – 4.1 4.2 – 4.3 4.4 – 5.1 5.2 – 5.3 6.1 – 6.2 6.3 – 7.1 7.2 – 7.3 7.4 – 8.1 8.2 – 8.4 8.5 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.4 10.1 – 10.2 10.3 – 10.4 11.11 – 11.2 12.1 – 12.2 12.3 – 12.4 12.5 – 12.6 13.1 – 13.2 13.3 – 14.1 14.2 – 14.3 14.4 – 14.5 14.6 – 15.2 15.2 – 15.4 15.5 – 15.6 15.7 – 16.1 16.2 – 16.3 17.1 – 18.1 18.2 – 18.3 18.4 – 18.5 19.1 – 19.2 19.3 – 19.4 20.1 – 20.2 20.3 – 20.4 20.5 – 21.1 21.2 – 21.4 21.5 – 22.1 22.2 – 22.4 23.1 – 23.3 23.4 – 23.5 23.6 – 24.1 24.2 – 24.3 25.1 – 25.2 25.3 – 25.4 25.5 – 26.2 26.3 – 27.1 27.2 – 27.3 27.4 – 27.5 27.6 – 27.7 28.1 – 28.3 28.4 – 29.1 29.2 – 29.3 29.4 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.3 30.4 – 30.5 30.6 – 31.1 31.2 – 31.3 32.1 – 32.4

İngilizce Yunanca

7.4 For it is weakness, not kindness, that brings men into endless pains and terrors when they are not trained by reason to endure the assaults of fortune. Such men do not even enjoy what they long for when they get it, but are filled with continual pangs, tremors, and struggles by the fear of future loss. However, we must be fortified not by poverty against deprivation of worldly goods, nor by friendlessness against loss of friends, nor by childlessness against death of children, but by reason against all adversities. This, under present circumstances, is more than enough on this head.

8.1 Once when the Athenians were tired out with a war which they were waging against the Megarians for the island of Salamis, they made a law that no one in future, on pain of death, should move, in writing or orally, that the city take up its contention for Salamis. Solon could not endure the disgrace of this, and when he saw that many of the young men wanted steps taken to bring on the war, but did not dare to take those steps themselves on account of the law, he pretended to be out of his head,