Saturday, August 10, 2024
Doing One's Own Business
Critias, fragment 41a, from Plato, Charmides 161 B (tr. Kathleen Freeman):
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Self-restraint is to mind one's own business.So the Greek is printed in Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4. Aufl., Bd. II (Berlin: Weidmann, 1922), p. xxxvii. But the infinitive is articular in John Burnet's Oxford Classical Text edition of Plato's works, with no indication of a variant or a conjecture in the critical apparatus:
σωφροσύνη ἂν εἴη τὰ ἑαυτοῦ πράττειν.
σωφροσύνη ἂν εἴη τὸ τὰ ἑαυτοῦ πράττειν.Related post: Mind Your Own Business.
