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Sections

1.1 – 1.3 2.1 – 2.2 2.3 – 2.4 2.5 – 2.6 3.1 – 3.2 3.3 – 4.1 4.2 – 4.3 4.4 – 5.1 5.2 – 5.3 5.4 – 5.5 6.1 – 6.3 7.1 – 7.2 7.3 – 7.4 7.5 – 8.1 8.2 – 8.3 9.1 – 9.2 9.3 – 9.4 10.1 – 10.2 10.3 – 10.4 10.5 – 10.6 11.1 – 11.2 11.3 – 11.5 12.1 – 12.3 12.4 – 12.6 12.7 – 13.1 13.2 – 13.3 14.1 – 14.2 14.3 – 15.1 15.2 – 16.1 16.2 – 16.4 16.5 – 17.1 17.2 – 18.2 18.3 – 18.4 18.5 – 19.1 19.2 – 19.3 19.4 – 20.2 20.3 – 21.1 21.2 – 21.4 21.5 – 22.2 22.3 – 23.1 23.2 – 23.3 23.4 – 24.1 24.2 – 24.3 24.4 – 25.1 25.2 – 26.1 26.2 – 26.3 26.4 – 27.2 27.3 – 27.5 28.1 – 28.2 28.3 – 29.1 29.2 – 29.3 29.4 – 29.6 29.7 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.3 31.1 – 31.2 31.3 – 31.5 32.1 – 32.3 32.4 – 32.5

İngilizce Yunanca

2.5 But in the first essays of his youth he was uneven and unstable, since he gave his natural impulses free course, which, without due address and training, rush to violent extremes in the objects of their pursuit, and often degenerate; as he himself in later life confessed, when he said that even the wildest colts made very good horses, if only they got the proper breaking and training.

2.6 What some story-makers add to this, however, to the effect that his father disinherited him, and his mother took her own life for very grief at her son’s ill-fame, this I think is false. And, in just the opposite vein, there are some who say that his father fondly tried to divert him from public life, pointing out to him old triremes on the sea-shore, all wrecked and neglected, and intimating that the people treated their leaders in like fashion when these were past service.