# Ἀπομνημονεύματα 2.59

Xenophon, Ἀπομνημονεύματα, Ἀπομνημονευμάτων Α, Chapter 2. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/xenophon/text-11/2.59

Σωκράτης δʼ οὐ ταῦτʼ ἔλεγε· καὶ γὰρ ἑαυτὸν οὕτω γʼ ἂν ᾤετο δεῖν παίεσθαι· ἀλλʼ ἔφη δεῖν τοὺς μήτε λόγῳ μήτʼ ἔργῳ ὠφελίμους ὄντας μήτε στρατεύματι μήτε πόλει μήτε αὐτῷ τῷ δήμῳ, εἴ τι δέοι, βοηθεῖν ἱκανούς, ἄλλως τʼ ἐὰν πρὸς τούτῳ καὶ θρασεῖς ὦσι, πάντα τρόπον κωλύεσθαι, κἂν πάνυ πλούσιοι τυγχάνωσιν ὄντες.

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Xenophon, Ἀπομνημονεύματα, ed. Edgar Carew Marchant. 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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