Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum, R. D. Hicks (Translator), 3.1.27

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[27] Alexis again in the Meropis¹:

You have come in the nick of time. For I am at my wits’ end and walking up and down, like Plato, and yet have discovered no wise plan but only tired my legs.

And in the Ancylion²:

You don’t know what you are talking about: run about with Plato, and you’ll know all about soap and onions.

Amphis,³ too, in the Amphicrates says:

A.

And as for the good, whatever that be, that you are likely to get on her account, I know no more about it, master, than I do of the good of Plato.

B.

Just attend.

Vitae philosophorum. Diogenes Laertius. R. D. Hicks (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1925.

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[27] Ἄλεξις Μεροπίδι·

εἰς καιρὸν ἥκεις· ὡς ἔγωγʼ ἀπορουμένη

ἄνω κάτω τε περιπατοῦσʼ ὥσπερ Πλάτων

σοφὸν οὐδὲν εὕρηκʼ, ἀλλὰ κοπιῶ τὰ σκέλη.

καὶ ἐν Ἀγκυλίωνι·

λέγεις περὶ ὧν οὐκ οἶσθα· συγγενοῦ τρέχων

Πλάτωνι καὶ γνώσῃ λίτρον καὶ κρόμμυον.

Ἄμφις Ἀμφικράτει·

τὸ δʼ ἀγαθὸν ὅ τι ποτʼ ἐστίν, οὗ σὺ τυγχάνειν

μέλλεις διὰ ταύτην, ἧττον οἶδα τοῦτʼ ἐγώ,

ὦ δέσποτʼ, ἢ τὸ Πλάτωνος ἀγαθόν.—πρόσεχε δή.

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1. Ib. iii. 451.

2. Ib. iii. 382.

3. A poet of the Middle Comedy; Meineke, loc. cit. iii. 302.

Diogenes Laertius Vitae philosophorum 3.1.27

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