But the Athenians, when they philosophize your way, resemble those who propose to cure others of what they haven't been able to cure themselves.Related posts:
οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ καθ᾽ ὑμᾶς φιλοσοφήσαντες ἐοίκασι τοῖς ἐπαγγελλομένοις ἄλλους ἰατρεύειν, ἃ μὴ αὑτοὺς ἰᾶσθαι δεδύνηται.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Monday, June 18, 2007
On Healing Oneself
Pseudo-Diogenes, Epistles 49 (tr. Benjamin Fiore) = Abraham J. Malherbe, The Cynic Epistles: A Study Edition (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1977), pp. 180-181: