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Aristotle

Rhetoric Section 5

Section 668 of 882

Canonical reference 2.6.5

Ancient Greek

καὶ τὸ κερδαίνειν ἀπὸ μικρῶν ἢ αἰσχρῶν ἢ ἀπὸ ἀδυνάτων, οἷον πενήτων ἢ τεθνεώτων, ὅθεν καὶ ἡ παροιμία τὸ ἀπὸ νεκροῦ φέρειν· ἀπὸ αἰσχροκερδείας γὰρ καὶ ἀνελευθερίας.

English

J. H. Freese, 1926

And making profit out of what is petty or disgraceful, or out of the weak, such as the indigent or dead; whence the proverb, to rob even a corpse, for this is due to base love of gain and stinginess.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Et tirer profit de ce qui est mesquin ou honteux, ou des faibles, tels les indigents ou les morts, d’où le proverbe : « dépouiller même un cadavre », car cela procède d’un amour sordide du gain et de l’avarice.

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