# Ἑλληνικά 3.31

Xenophon, Ἑλληνικά, Ἑλληνικῶν Β, Chapter 3. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/xenophon/text-8/3.31

ὅθεν δήπου καὶ κόθορνος ἐπικαλεῖται. δεῖ δέ, ὦ Θηράμενες, ἄνδρα τὸν ἄξιον ζῆν οὐ προάγειν μὲν δεινὸν εἶναι εἰς πράγματα τοὺς συνόντας, ἂν δέ τι ἀντικόπτῃ, εὐθὺς μεταβάλλεσθαι, ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ ἐν νηὶ διαπονεῖσθαι, ἕως ἂν εἰς οὖρον καταστῶσιν· εἰ δὲ μή, πῶς ἂν ἀφίκοιντό ποτε ἔνθα δεῖ, εἰ ἐπειδάν τι ἀντικόψῃ, εὐθὺς εἰς τἀναντία πλέοιεν;

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Xenophon, Ἑλληνικά, ed. Edgar Cardew 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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