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On noticing that Epigenes, one of his companions, was in poor condition, for a young man, he said: You look as if you need exercise, 1 Epigenes.
Well, he replied, I’m not an athlete, Socrates.
Just as much as the competitors entered for Olympia , he retorted. Or do you count the life and death struggle with their enemies, upon which, it may be, the Athenians will enter, but a small thing?
On noticing that Epigenes, one of his companions, was in poor condition, for a young man, he said: You look as if you need exercise, 1 Epigenes.
Well, he replied, I’m not an athlete, Socrates.
Just as much as the competitors entered for Olympia , he retorted. Or do you count the life and death struggle with their enemies, upon which, it may be, the Athenians will enter, but a small thing?
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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