Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, 2.1.6

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[6] ἔτι τοίνυν οἱ τὰ χρηστὰ τῶν πραγμάτων τοῖς λοιδορουμένοις ὀνόμασι μετὰ παιδιᾶς καλοῦντες, 10 ἂν ἐμμελῶς ποιῶσιν, αὐτῶν μᾶλλον εὐφραίνουσι τῶν ἀπʼ εὐθείας ἐπαινούντων. καὶ γὰρ δάκνουσι μᾶλλον οἱ διὰ τῶν εὐφήμων ὀνειδίζοντες, ὡς οἱ τοὺς πονηροὺς Ἀριστείδας καὶ τοὺς δειλοὺς Ἀχιλλεῖς καλοῦντες, καὶ ὁ¹ τοῦ Σοφοκλέους Οἰδίπους² 15

ταύτης Κρέων ὁ πιστὸς οὑξ ἀρχῆς³ φίλος.

ἀντίστροφον οὖν ἔοικε γένος εἰρωνείας εἶναι⁴ τὸ 632e περὶ τοὺς ἐπαίνους· ᾧ καὶ Σωκράτης ἐχρήσατο, τοῦ Ἀντισθένους τὸ φιλοποιὸν καὶ συναγωγὸν ἀνθρώπων εἰς εὔνοιαν μαστροπείαν καὶ συναγωγίαν⁵ 20 καὶ προαγωγείαν⁶ ὀνομάσας. Κράτητα δὲ τὸν φιλόσοφον, εἰς πᾶσαν οἰκίαν εἰσιόντα μετὰ τιμῆς καὶ φιλοφροσύνης δεχομένων, θυρεπανοίκτην ἐκάλουν.

Quaestiones Convivales. Plutarch. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Leipzig. 1892.

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Συμποσιακῶν προβλημάτων βιβλία (Greek) (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol. IV. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1892.)

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Symposiacs Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. III. Goodwin, William W., editor; Creech, Thomas, translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.) — 2.1.6 focus

[6] Butt more, those that jocosely put scandalous names upon things commendable, if it be opportunely done, please more than he that plainly and openly commends; for those that cover a reproach under fair and respectful words (as he that calls an unjust man Aristides, a coward Achilles) gall more than those that openly abuse. Such is that of Oedipus, in Sophocles,

The faithful Creon, my most constant friend.¹

The familiar irony in commendations answers to this on the other side. Such Socrates used, when he called the kind endeavor and industry of Antisthenes to make men friends pimping, bawds-craft, and allurement; and others that called Crates the philosopher, who wherever he went was caressed and honored, the door-opener.

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Συμποσιακῶν προβλημάτων βιβλία

1. καὶ ὁ] ὃ καὶ mei

2. post Οἰδίπους lac. est 6-7 Vd 10 E. Fort. suppl. λέγων ‘ταύτης cett.

3. ἀρχῆς X: 6 Vd 7 E χης

4. εἰρωνείας εἶναι *: εἶναι εἰρωνείας

5. καὶ συναγωγίαν] del. W

6. προαγωγείαν idem e Xen. Symp. 4, 52: ἀγωγίαν Ceterum post ὀνομάσας magna est lac. 46 Vd 53 E. Fort. excidit locus quidam Xenophonteus

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