# Dialexeis 4.Subsection a-9

Maximus of Tyre, Dialexeis, ΚΕ΄ XXV (Duebn XXXI vulg. 15), Section 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/maximus-of-tyre/dialexeis/4.Subsection%20a-9

‘Ποῖον οὖν ἐστιν τὸ ἐν λόγοις καλόν’; φαίη ἄν τις. Μήπω μέν, ὦ τάν, ἔρῃ· ὄψει γὰρ αὐτὸ ὄν, ἐπειδὰν ἰδεῖν δυνηθῇς. Οὐδὲ γὰρ τῷ Κιμμερίῳ διηγήσασθαι δύναταί τις τὸ τοῦ ἡλίου κάλλος, οὐδὲ τῷ ἠπειρώτῃ τὴν θάλατταν, οὐδʼ Ἐπικούρῳ τὸν θεόν· οὐ γὰρ διʼ ἀγγέλων ἡ ἱστορία ἔρχεται, ἀλλʼ ἐπιστήμης πρὸς ταῦτα δεῖ· μέχρι δὲ ἀπιστεῖ τὸ εἰδέναι, ἀνάγκη πλανᾶσθαι καὶ τὰς κρίσεις. Καὶ γὰρ τῶν ἐκ γῆς φυομένων παντοδαπὸς

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Maximus of Tyre, Dialexeis, ed. Hermann Hobein. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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