Elegy and Iambus, Volume I
J. M. Edmonds, Ed.

Elegiacs

“Now it is clear that lack of self-control is not a vice —though in a way perhaps it is, for it may or may not be deliberate; all the same the result is similar, as in the line of Demodocus on the Milesians:¹

<Thus also spake Demodocus —> The Milesians are not dolts, but they behave like dolts;

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in the same way, the uncontrolled may not be knaves, but they behave like knaves.

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Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

Thus also spake Demodocus —The Chians are bad men, not one bad and another not, but all save Procles, and Procles is a Chian.²

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