Μάρκελλος

Sections

1.1 – 1.3 2.1 – 2.3 2.4 – 3.1 3.2 – 3.3 3.4 – 4.2 4.3 – 5.1 5.2 – 5.3 5.4 – 6.1 6.2 – 6.3 6.4 – 6.5 6.6 – 7.2 7.3 – 7.4 7.5 – 8.2 8.3 – 8.4 8.5 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.4 10.1 – 10.2 10.3 – 10.5 11.1 – 11.3 11.4 – 12.1 12.2 – 12.3 13.1 – 13.3 13.4 – 14.1 14.2 – 14.3 14.4 – 14.6 14.7 – 14.9 15.1 – 15.2 15.3 – 15.4 15.5 – 16.2 17.1 – 17.3 17.4 – 17.5 17.6 – 18.1 18.2 – 18.4 19.1 – 19.2 19.3 – 19.4 19.5 – 20.1 20.2 – 20.3 20.4 – 20.5 20.6 – 21.1 21.2 – 21.4 21.5 – 22.2 22.3 – 22.4 22.5 – 23.2 23.3 – 23.5 23.6 – 24.1 24.2 – 24.3 24.4 – 24.6 24.7 – 25.1 25.2 – 25.4 25.5 – 26.1 26.2 – 26.4 27.1 – 27.3 27.4 – 28.2 28.3 – 29.1 29.2 – 29.4 29.5 – 29.7 29.8 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.4 30.5 – 30.6

İngilizce Yunanca

17.4 he would not consent to leave behind him any treatise on this subject, but regarding the work of an engineer and every art that ministers to the needs of life as ignoble and vulgar, he devoted his earnest efforts only to those studies the subtlety and charm of which are not affected by the claims of necessity. These studies, he thought, are not to be compared with any others; in them the subject matter vies with the demonstration, the former supplying grandeur and beauty, the latter precision and surpassing power.

17.5 For it is not possible to find in geometry more profound and difficult questions treated in simpler and purer terms. Some attribute this success to his natural endowments; others think it due to excessive labour that everything he did seemed to have been performed without labour and with ease. For no one could by his own efforts discover the proof, and yet as soon as he learns it from him, he thinks he might have discovered it himself; so smooth and rapid is the path by which he leads one to the desired conclusion.