# Περὶ τῆς Ἡροδότου κακοηθείας 4

Plutarch, Περὶ τῆς Ἡροδότου κακοηθείας, Section 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/plutarch/text-74/4

καὶ μὴν τὸ γʼ ἀντίστροφον τούτῳ παντὶ δῆλον ὡς καλοῦ τινος κἀγαθοῦ παράλειψίς; ἐστιν, ἀνυπεύθυνον δοκοῦν πρᾶγμα εἶναι, γιγνόμενον δὲ κακοήθως, ἄνπερ ἐμπίπτῃ τὸ παραλειφθὲν εἰς τόπον προσήκοντα τῇ ἱστορίᾳ· τὸ γὰρ ἀπροθύμως ἐπαινεῖν τοῦ ψέγοντα χαίρειν οὐκ ἐπιεικέστερον, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τῷ μὴ ἐπιεικέστερον ἴσως καὶ χεῖρον.

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Plutarch, Περὶ τῆς Ἡροδότου κακοηθείας, ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. 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/tlg0007.tlg123.local001/.