# Ἀπομνημονεύματα 5.15

Xenophon, Ἀπομνημονεύματα, Ἀπομνημονευμάτων Γ, Chapter 5. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/xenophon/text-11/5.15

λέγεις, ἔφη, πόρρω που εἶναι τῇ πόλει τὴν καλοκαγαθίαν. πότε γὰρ οὕτως Ἀθηναῖοι ὥσπερ Λακεδαιμόνιοι ἢ πρεσβυτέρους αἰδέσονται, οἳ ἀπὸ τῶν πατέρων ἄρχονται καταφρονεῖν τῶν γεραιτέρων, ἢ σωμασκήσουσιν οὕτως, οἳ οὐ μόνον αὐτοὶ εὐεξίας ἀμελοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἐπιμελομένων καταγελῶσι;

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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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