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Aristotle

Rhetoric Section 10

Section 202 of 882

Canonical reference 1.5.10

Ancient Greek

σώματος δὲ ἀρετὴ ὑγίεια, αὕτη δὲ οὕτως ὥστε ἀνόσους εἶναι χρωμένους τοῖς σώμασιν· πολλοὶ γὰρ ὑγιαίνουσιν, ὥσπερ Ἡρόδικος λέγεται, οὓς οὐδεὶς ἂν εὐδαιμονίσειε τῆς ὑγιείας διὰ τὸ πάντων ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ἢ τῶν πλείστων.

English

J. H. Freese, 1926

Bodily excellence is health, and of such a kind that when exercising the body we are free from sickness; for many are healthy in the way Herodicus is said to have been, whom no one would consider happy in the matter of health, because they are obliged to abstain from all or nearly all human enjoyments.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13

L’excellence du corps est la santé, et une santé telle que, lorsque nous exerçons notre corps, nous soyons exempts de maladie. Car beaucoup sont en bonne santé à la manière dont on dit qu’Hérodicos l’était, et nul ne les jugerait heureux sous le rapport de la santé, parce qu’ils sont obligés de s’abstenir de toutes les jouissances humaines, ou presque toutes.

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