# Ἀπομνημονεύματα 7.3-3

Xenophon, Ἀπομνημονεύματα, Ἀπομνημονευμάτων Δ, Chapter 7. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/xenophon/text-11/7.3-3

τὸ δὲ μέχρι τῶν δυσσυνέτων διαγραμμάτων γεωμετρίαν μανθάνειν ἀπεδοκίμαζεν. ὅ τι μὲν γὰρ ὠφελοίη ταῦτα, οὐκ ἔφη ὁρᾶν· καίτοι οὐκ ἄπειρός γε αὐτῶν ἦν· ἔφη δὲ ταῦτα ἱκανὰ εἶναι ἀνθρώπου βίον κατατρίβειν καὶ ἄλλων πολλῶν τε καὶ ὠφελίμων μαθημάτων ἀποκωλύειν.

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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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