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Plato
Euthydemus Passage 283
Passage 13 of 37
Canonical reference 283
Ancient Greek
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ΣΩ. ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν ταῦτα εἶπον, ὦ Κρίτων· τῷ δὲ μετὰ τοῦτο ἐσομένῳ πάνυ σφόδρα προσεῖχον τὸν νοῦν, καὶ ἐπεσκόπουν τίνα ποτὲ τρόπον ἅψοιντο τοῦ λόγου καὶ ὁπόθεν ἄρξοιντο παρακελευόμενοι τῷ νεανίσκῳ σοφίαν τε καὶ ἀρετὴν ἀσκεῖν. ὁ οὖν πρεσβύτερος αὐτῶν, ὁ Διονυσόδωρος, πρότερος ἤρχετο τοῦ λόγου, καὶ ἡμεῖς πάντες ἐβλέπομεν πρὸς αὐτὸν ὡς αὐτίκα μάλα ἀκουσόμενοι θαυμασίους τινὰς λόγους. ὅπερ οὖν καὶ συνέβη ἡμῖν· θαυμαστὸν γάρ τινα, ὦ Κρίτων, ἁνὴρ κατῆρχεν λόγον, οὗ σοὶ ἄξιον ἀκοῦσαι, ὡς παρακελευστικὸς ὁ λόγος ἦν ἐπʼ ἀρετήν. εἰπέ μοι, ἔφη, ὦ Σώκρατές τε καὶ ὑμεῖς οἱ ἄλλοι, ὅσοι φατὲ ἐπιθυμεῖν τόνδε τὸν νεανίσκον σοφὸν γενέσθαι, πότερον παίζετε ταῦτα λέγοντες ἢ ὡς ἀληθῶς ἐπιθυμεῖτε καὶ σπουδάζετε; κἀγὼ διενοήθην ὅτι ᾠηθήτην ἄρα ἡμᾶς τὸ πρότερον παίζειν, ἡνίκα ἐκελεύομεν διαλεχθῆναι τῷ νεανίσκῳ αὐτώ, καὶ διὰ ταῦτα προσεπαισάτην τε καὶ οὐκ ἐσπουδασάτην· ταῦτα οὖν διανοηθεὶς ἔτι μᾶλλον εἶπον ὅτι θαυμαστῶς σπουδάζοιμεν. καὶ ὁ Διονυσόδωρος, σκόπει μήν, ἔφη, ὦ Σώκρατες, ὅπως μὴ ἔξαρνος ἔσῃ ἃ νῦν λέγεις. - ἔσκεμμαι, ἦν δʼ ἐγώ· οὐ γὰρ μή ποτʼ ἔξαρνος γένωμαι. - τί οὖν; ἔφη· φατὲ βούλεσθαι αὐτὸν σοφὸν γενέσθαι; - πάνυ μὲν οὖν. - νῦν δέ, ἦ δʼ ὅς, Κλεινίας πότερον σοφός ἐστιν ἢ οὔ; - οὔκουν φησί γέ πω· ἔστιν δέ, ἦν δʼ ἐγώ, οὐκ ἀλαζών. - ὑμεῖς δέ, ἔφη, βούλεσθε γενέσθαι αὐτὸν σοφόν, ἀμαθῆ δὲ μὴ εἶναι; - ὡμολογοῦμεν. - οὐκοῦν ὃς μὲν οὐκ ἔστιν, βούλεσθε αὐτὸν γενέσθαι, ὃς δʼ ἔστι νῦν, μηκέτι εἶναι. - καὶ ἐγὼ ἀκούσας ἐθορυβήθην· ὁ δέ μου θορυβουμένου ὑπολαβών, ἄλλο τι οὖν, ἔφη, ἐπεὶ βούλεσθε αὐτὸν ὃς νῦν ἐστὶν μηκέτι εἶναι, βούλεσθε αὐτόν, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἀπολωλέναι; καίτοι πολλοῦ ἂν ἄξιοι οἱ τοιοῦτοι εἶεν φίλοι τε καὶ ἐρασταί, οἵτινες τὰ παιδικὰ περὶ παντὸς ἂν ποιήσαιντο ἐξολωλέναι. καὶ ὁ Κτήσιππος ἀκούσας ἠγανάκτησέν τε ὑπὲρ τῶν παιδικῶν καὶ εἶπεν· ὦ ξένε Θούριε, εἰ μὴ ἀγροικότερον, ἔφη, ἦν εἰπεῖν, εἶπον ἄν· σοὶ εἰς κεφαλήν, ὅτι μαθών μου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων καταψεύδῃ τοιοῦτον πρᾶγμα, ὃ ἐγὼ οἶμαι οὐδʼ ὅσιον εἶναι λέγειν, ὡς ἐγὼ τόνδε βουλοίμην ἂν ἐξολωλέναι.
English
Benjamin Jowett · perseus-plato-euthydemus-en
Soc. These were my words, Crito; and I set about giving the closest attention to what should follow, and observing in what fashion they would deal with the question, and how they would start exhorting the youth to practise wisdom and virtue. So then the elder of them, Dionysodorus, entered first upon the discussion, and we all turned our eyes on him expecting to hear, there and then, some wonderful arguments. And this result we certainly got; for wondrous, in a way, Crito, was the argument that the man then ushered forth, which is worth your hearing as a notable incitement to virtue. Tell me, Socrates, he said, and all you others who say you desire this youth to become wise, whether you say this in jest or truly and earnestly desire it. At this I reflected that previously, as it seemed, they took us to be jesting, when we urged them to converse with the youth, and hence they made a jest of it and did not take it seriously. This reflection therefore made me insist all the more that we were in deadly earnest. Then Dionysodorus said: Yet be careful, Socrates, that you do not have to deny what you say now. I know what I am about, I said: I know I shall never deny it. Well now, he proceeded; you tell me you wish him to become wise? Certainly. And at present, he asked, is Cleinias wise or not? He says he is not yet so - he is no vain pretender. And you, he went on, wish him to become wise, and not to be ignorant? We agreed. So you wish him to become what he is not, and to be no longer what he now is. When I heard this I was confused; and he, striking in on my confusion, said: Of course then, since you wish him to be no longer what he now is, you wish him, apparently, to be dead. And yet what valuable friends and lovers they must be, who would give anything to know their darling was dead and gone! Ctesippus, on hearing this, was annoyed on his favorite’s account, and said: Stranger of Thurii , were it not rather a rude thing to say, I should tell you, ill betide your design of speaking so falsely of me and my friends as to make out - what to me is almost too profane even to repeat - that I could wish this boy to be dead and gone!
French
Victor Cousin · wikisource-cousin-euthydemus-fr-01
[283a] Après avoir parlé de la sorte, Criton, j’écoutais avec recueillement pour entendre de quelle manière ils entameraient la conversation, et comment ils s’y prendraient pour exciter Clinias à l’étude de la vertu et de la sagesse. Dionysodore, le plus âgé des deux, prit le premier la parole ; nous jetâmes tous les yeux sur lui comme pour entendre à l’instant un discours merveilleux. En quoi [283b] nous ne fumes pas trompés ; car il est vrai, Criton, qu’il nous dit des choses admirables, qui méritent d’être entendues de toi, tant elles étaient capables d’exciter à la vertu ! - Dis-moi, Socrate, et vous tous, qui désirez, dites-vous, que ce jeune homme soit vertueux, n’est-ce qu’un jeu de votre part, ou le souhaitez-vous tout de bon et sérieusement ? - Il me vint alors dans l’esprit que ces étrangers pourraient bien avoir cru, quand nous les avions priés d’entretenir Clinias, que nous avions plaisanté et que pour cela ils n’avaient fait aussi que badiner. [283c] Je me hâtai donc de répondre qu’assurément c’était tout de bon. - Prends garde, Socrate, reprit Dionysodore, que tu ne nies bientôt ce que tu affirmes présentement. - Je sais bien ce que je dis, répondis-je, et je suis sûr que je ne le ferai pas. - Que dites-vous donc ? vous souhaitez qu’il devienne sage ? - Cela même. - Et maintenant Clinias est-il sage ou ne l’est-il pas ? - Il dit qu’il ne l’est pas encore, car c’est un garçon sans vanité. - Vous [283d] voulez donc, reprit-il, qu’il soit sage, et non pas ignorant ? - Oui. - Vous voulez donc qu’il devienne ce qu’il n’est pas, et qu’il ne soit pas ce qu’il est ? - À ces mots j’étais déjà tout embarrassé. Dionysodore, profitant de mon trouble, reprit aussitôt : Puisque vous voulez que Clinias ne soit plus ce qu’il est, vous voudriez qu’il ne fût pas vivant ? Vraiment voilà de beaux amis et amans qui souhaitent avant tout la mort de celui qui leur est cher ! [283e] Là-dessus Ctésippe s’enflamma de colère à cause de ses amours, et dit : Étranger de Thurium, s’il n’était pas trop impoli, je te dirais : Retombe sur ta tête le mensonge que tu fais sciemment en supposant de moi et des autres, ce qu’on ne peut pas même dire sans crime, que je souhaite la mort de Clinias ! - Ctésippe, lui dit Euthydème, crois-tu qu’il soit possible de mentir ? - Oui, par Jupiter ! répondit-il, à moins que je ne sois fou. - Mais celui qui ment dit-il la chose dont il est question, ou ne
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