# Noctes Atticae 1.2.2-3

Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 1.2.2 to 1.2.3. Latin.

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8 Eipe moi peri agathon kai kakon. Akove. Iliothen me pheron enemos Kikonessi pelassen. 9 Ton onton ta men estin agatha, ta de kaka, ta de adiaphora. Agatha men oun aretai kai ta metechonta auton, kaka de kakia kai ta metechonta kakias, adiaphora de kai ta metaxu touton, ploutos, hygeia, zoe, thanatos, hedone, ponos. 10 Pothen oidas? Hellanikos legei en tois Aigyptiakois. Ti gar diapherei touto eipein, e hoti Diogenes en tei ethikei e Chrysippos e kleanthes? Bebasanikas oun ti auton kai dogma sautou pepoiesai? 11 Deiknye, pos eiothas en ploioi cheimazesthai; memnesai tautes tes diaireseos, hotan psophesei to histion kai anakraugaseis? An soi tis kakoscholos pos parastas eipei: "lege moi, tous theous soi, ha proien eleges, me ti kakia estin to navagesai, me ti kakias metechon?" ouk ara xylon enseiseis autoi? "ti hemin kai soi, anthrope! apollymetha, kai sy elthon paizeis." 12 Ean de se ho Kaisar metapempsetai kategoreumenon . . . 13 His ille auditis insolentissimus adulescens obticuit, tamquam si ea omnia non ab Epicteto in quosdam alios, sed ab Herode in eum ipsum dicta essent.

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