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| τὰ θνητὰ πράγμαθ’ ἥντιν’ οἶσθ’ ἔχει φύσιν; οἶμαι μὲν οὔ· πόθεν γάρ; ἀλλ’ ἄκουέ μου. |
| Do you know the nature of mortality? I think not - after all where could you have learnt it from? Now listen to me. |
| Euripides Alcestis 780-781 (27) |
| Σωκράτης: ἀλλά μοι πειρῶ πρᾴως τε καὶ εὐκόλως ἀποκρίνεσθαι. Ἱππίας: αἰσχρὸν γὰρ ἂν εἴη, ὦ Σώκρατες, εἰ ἄλλους μὲν αὐτὰ ταῦτα παιδεύω καὶ ἀξιῶ διὰ ταῦτα χρήματα λαμβάνειν, αὐτὸς δὲ ὑπὸ σοῦ ἐρωτώμενος μὴ συγγνώμην τ’ ἔχοιμι καὶ πρᾴως ἀποκρινοίμην. |
| Socrates: Try to answer me nice and kindly. Hippias: It would be terrible if I didn't try to understand you and answer your questions nicely when I teach these topics to others and consider my services worthy of payment. |
| Plato Hippias Minor 364d (29) |
| τὸν ὄντα δ’ εἴσῃ μῦθον· οἵδε γὰρ ξένοι ἥκουσ’ Ὀρέστου πρός με κήρυκες λόγων. ἀλλ’, ὦ ξένοι, σύγγνωτε τοῖς εἰρημένοις. |
| You will know the truth: these strangers have come from Orestes carrying messages for me. Now, strangers, forgive what has been said. |
| Euripides Electra 346-8 (97) |
| “νέοι ἐστέ,” εἰπεῖν, “τὰς ψυχὰς πάντες· οὐδεμίαν γὰρ ἐν αὐταῖς ἔχετε δι’ ἀρχαίαν ἀκοὴν παλαιὰν δόξαν οὐδὲ μάθημα χρόνῳ πολιὸν οὐδέν. |
| "You are all young in your souls," he said "because you have no opinion that is hoary with age, nor any understanding grey with time". |
| Plato Timaeus 224b (119) |
| Κρέων: σὺ δ’ οὐκ ἐπαιδεῖ, τῶνδε χωρὶς εἰ φρονεῖς; Ἀντιγόνη: οὐδὲν γὰρ αἰσχρὸν τοὺς ὁμοσπλάγχνους σέβειν. |
| Creon: Are you not ashamed to think differently from them? Antigone: No - there is nothing shameful in respecting one's family |
| Sophocles Antigone 510-11 (231) |
| μηδεὶς δ’ ὑμῶν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, δυσχερῶς ὑπολάβῃ· καὶ γὰρ νῦν ἀστὰς γυναῖκας πολλὰς εὑρήσετε τιτθευούσας, ἃς ὑμῖν καὶ κατ’ ὄνομα, ἐὰν βούλησθε, ἐροῦμεν. |
| Let none of you take this in the wrong way. After all, even now you can find many citizens acting as wet-nurses, who we can name for you, if you like. |
| Demosthenes Speeches 57.35 (237) |
| Ἱππίας: ἀλλ’ ἐγώ σοι, ὦ Σώκρατες, ἐθέλω ἔτι σαφέστερον ἢ τότε διελθεῖν ἃ λέγω καὶ περὶ τούτων καὶ ἄλλων. φημὶ γὰρ Ὅμηρον πεποιηκέναι ἄριστον μὲν ἄνδρα Ἀχιλλέα τῶν εἰς Τροίαν ἀφικομένων, σοφώτατον δὲ Νέστορα, πολυτροπώτατον δὲ Ὀδυσσέα. |
| Hippias: I want to explain more clearly than before what I mean on this question and others. You see - I claim that Homer drew Achilles as the greatest of those who went to Troy, Nestor the wisest, and Odysseus the most complex. |
| Plato Hippias Minor 364c (542) |
| τὸν ὄντα δ’ εἴσῃ μῦθον· οἵδε γὰρ ξένοι ἥκουσ’ Ὀρέστου πρός με κήρυκες λόγων. |
| You will know the actual story. These strangers have come to pass on messages from Orestes to me. |
| Euripides Electra 346-7 (544) |
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