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Plotinus, Enneads 2.3 (DIORISIS sentence 797)

grc plotinus enneads

Χρὴ δὲ κἀκεῖνο ἐνθυμεῖσθαι, ὡς τὸ ἀπʼ ἐκείνων ἰὸν οὐ τοιοῦτον εἶσιν εἰς τοὺς λαβόντας, οἷον παρʼ ἐκείνων ἔρχεται οἷον εἰ πῦρ, ἀμυδρὸν τοῦτο, καὶ εἰ φιλιακὴ διάθεσις, ἀσθενὴς γενομένη ἐν τῶι λαβόντι οὐ μάλα καλὴν τὴν φίλησιν εἰργάσατο, καὶ θυμὸς δὴ οὐκ ἐν μέτρωι τυχόντος, ὡς ἀνδρεῖον γενέσθαι, ἢ ἀκροχολίαν ἢ ἀθυμίαν εἰργάσατο, καὶ τὸ τιμῆς ἐν ἔρωτι ὂν καὶ περὶ τὸ καλὸν ἔχον τῶν δοκούντων καλῶν ἔφεσιν εἰργάσατο, καὶ νοῦ ἀπόρροια πανουργίαν καὶ γὰρ ἡ πανουργία ἐθέλει νοῦς εἶναι τυχεῖν οὗ ἐφίεται οὐ δυνάμενος.

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Stable ID plotinus:enneads:2.3:s797
Source Plotinus Enneads lemmatised primary text — DIORISIS edition (Vatri & McGillivray, Alan Turing Institute), Bibliotheca Augustana base text · cc-by-sa-3.0-us
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