Φιλοποίμην

Sections

1.1 – 1.2 1.3 – 2.1 2.2 – 3.1 3.2 – 3.4 4.1 – 4.3 4.4 – 4.6 5.1 – 5.2 6.1 – 6.2 6.3 – 6.4 6.5 – 6.7 7.1 – 7.3 7.4 – 7.7 8.1 – 8.3 8.4 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.4 9.5 – 9.7 9.8 – 10.2 10.3 – 10.5 10.6 – 10.8 11.1 – 11.3 12.1 – 12.3 12.4 – 12.5 13.1 – 13.2 13.3 – 13.5 13.6 – 14.2 14.3 – 14.4 14.5 – 14.7 15.1 – 15.3 15.4 – 15.5 15.6 – 16.1 16.2 – 16.4 16.5 – 16.6 17.1 – 17.2 17.3 – 17.4 18.1 – 18.3 18.4 – 18.6 18.7 – 19.1 19.2 – 19.4 19.5 – 20.3 21.1 – 21.3 21.4 – 21.5 21.6 – 21.6

İngilizce Yunanca

1.3 They freed their own native city from tyranny, by secretly procuring men to kill Aristodemus; they joined with Aratus in expelling Nicocles the tyrant of Sicyon;See the Aratus, ii.-x. and at the request of the people of Cyrene, whose city was full of confusion and political distemper, they sailed thither, introduced law and order, and arranged matters in the city most happily.

1.4 They themselves, however, counted the education of Philopoemen also among their many achievements, believing that their philosophical teachings had made him a common benefit to Greece. For since he was the child, as it were, of her late old age and succeeded to the virtues of her ancient commanders, Greece loved him surpassingly, and as his reputation grew, increased his power. And a certain Roman, in praising him, called him the last of the Greeks,See the Aratus, xxiv. 2. implying that Greece produced no great man after him, nor one worthy of her.

2.1 In looks he was not, as some suppose, ill-favoured; for a statue of him is still to be seen at Delphi; and the mistake of his Megarian hostess was due, as we are told, to a certain indifference and simplicity on his part. This woman, learning that the general of the Achaeans was coming to her house, in great confusion set about preparing supper; besides, her husband chanced to be away from home.