# De Libero Arbitrio 3.3

Methodius, De Libero Arbitrio, Chapter 3. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/methodius/de-libero-arbitrio/3.3

ὁ δὲ ξίφος ἐγύμνου καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν ὅμοιον ἄνθρωπον . . ἐχώρει. καὶ ὁ μὲν φυγῇ τὴν σωτηρίαν πορίζειν ἥθελεν, ὁ δὲ διώκειν οὐκ ἐπαύετο, οὐδὲ τοῦ θυμοῦ κρατεῖν ἤθελε. καὶ τί δεῖ πλείονα λέγειν, ἀλλ’ ὅτι χωρήσας ἐπ’ αὐτὸν εὐθέως ἔπαιεν τῷ ξίφει; ὁ δ’ ἱκέτης τῷ πλησίον ἐγίνετο καὶ χεῖρας ἱκεσίας ὤρεγεν, καὶ τὴν μὲν ἐσθῆτα διδόναι ἤθελεν, μόνον δὲ τὸ ζῆν ἔχειν ἠξίου. ὁ δ’ οὐκ ἔθραυεν τὸν θυμόν, οὐδ’ ἠλέει τὸν ὁμογενῆ, οὐδὲ ἑαυτὸν διὰ τῆς εἰκόνος ἐν ἐκείνῳ βλέπειν ἤθελεν, ἀλλ’ ὡς ἄγριος θὴρ τῷ ξίφει τῆς βορᾶς ἤρχετο, ἤδη δὲ καὶ τὸ στόμα τῷ ὁμοίῳ προσέφερε σώματι· τοσοῦτος γὰρ ἠν τῷ θυμῷ. καὶ ἠν ἰδεῖν τὸν μὲν ἤδη κείμενον, τὸν δὲ λοιπὸν σκυλεύοντα καὶ μηδὲ γῇ σκεπάζοντα τὸ οῶμα, ὅ τῆς ἐσθῆτος ἐγύμνωσεν.

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Methodius, De Libero Arbitrio, ed. D.G. Nathanael Bonwetsch. 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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg2959.tlg002.local001/.