Τῶν ἑπτὰ σοφῶν συμπόσιον

Sections

intro – intro intro – intro intro – intro 1 – 1 2 – 2 2 – 2 2 – 2 2 – 2 3 – 3 3 – 3 3 – 3 3 – 3 3 – 3 3 – 3 3 – 3 4 – 4 4 – 4 4 – 5 5 – 5 6 – 6 6 – 6 6 – 6 7 – 7 7 – 7 7 – 7 7 – 8 8 – 8 8 – 8 9 – 9 9 – 10 10 – 10 10 – 10 11 – 11 11 – 12 12 – 12 12 – 12 12 – 12 13 – 13 13 – 13 13 – 13 13 – 14 14 – 14 14 – 14 14 – 14 14 – 14 14 – 15 15 – 15 15 – 15 16 – 16 16 – 16 16 – 17 18 – 18 18 – 18 18 – 19 19 – 19 19 – 19 20 – 20 21 – 21 21 – 21 21 – 21 21 – 21

İngilizce İngilizce Yunanca

14 As Chersias lapsed into silence, Cleodorus took up the conversation and said, But we see that the possessions which even you wise men have are distributed by unequal measure, if you be compared one with another.

14 And Cleobulus said, Yes, for the law, my good sir, like a weaver, assigns to each one of us so much as is fitting, reasonable, and suitable. And you, using reason as your law in prescribing diet, regimen, and drugs for the sick, do not apportion an equal amount to each one, but the proper amount in all cases.

14 Ardalus then joined in and said, Well, then, is there some law which commands that comrade of all of you, Solon’s foreign friend, Epimenides, to abstain from all other kinds of food, and by taking into his mouth a bit of the potent no-hunger, A recipe (probably forged) for making this compound may be found in Tzetzes’ scholium on Hesiod, Works and Days, 41. which he himself compounds, to go all day without luncheon and dinner?

14 This remark arrested the attention of the whole company, and Thales said jestingly that Epimenides showed good sense in not wishing to have the trouble of grinding his grain and cooking for himself like Pittacus. For, said he, when I was at Eresus, I heard the woman at whose house I stayed singing at the mill: Grind, mill, grind; Yes, for Pittacus used to grind King of great Mytilene. Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graec. iii. p. 673.