Note 692 — Chapter XXXVII · IONIC PHILOSOPHERS. — PYTHAGORAS. — KROTON AND SYBARIS.
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The less these problems are adapted for rational solution, the more nobly do they present themselves in the language of a great poem; see as a specimen, Euripidês, Fragment. 101, ed. Dindorf.
Ὄλβιος ὅστις τῆς ἱστορίας Ἔσχε μάθησιν, μήτε πολιτῶν Ἐπὶ πημοσύνῃ, μήτ᾽ εἰς ἀδίκους Πράξεις ὁρμῶν· Ἀλλ᾽ ἀθανάτου καθορῶν φύσεως Κόσμον ἀγήρω, πῆ τε συνέστη Καὶ ὅπη καὶ ὅπως. Τοῖς δὲ τοιούτοις οὐδέποτ᾽ αἰσχρῶν Ἔργων μελέτημα προσίζει.