Xenophon, Memorabilia, Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator), 3.9.9

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Considering the nature of Leisure, he said his conclusion was that almost all men do something. Even draught-players and jesters do something, but all these are at leisure, for they might¹ go and do something better. But nobody has leisure to go from a better to a worse occupation. If anyone does so, he acts wrongly, having no leisure.²

Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.

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Memorabilia (English) (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol. 4. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923.)

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Ἀπομνημονεύματα Perseus (Xenophon. Opera omnia, Vol. 2. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 3.9.9 focus

[9]
σχολὴν δὲ σκοπῶν, τί εἴη, ποιοῦντας μέν τι τοὺς πλείστους εὑρίσκειν ἔφη· καὶ γὰρ τοὺς πεττεύοντας καὶ τοὺς γελωτοποιοῦντας ποιεῖν τι· πάντας δὲ τούτους ἔφη σχολάζειν· ἐξεῖναι γὰρ αὐτοῖς ἰέναι πράξοντας τὰ βελτίω τούτων. ἀπὸ μέντοι τῶν βελτιόνων ἐπὶ τὰ χείρω ἰέναι οὐδένα σχολάζειν· εἰ δέ τις ἴοι, τοῦτον ἀσχολίας αὐτῷ οὔσης κακῶς ἔφη τοῦτο πράττειν.

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1. Or, if with Stobaeus we omit ἐξεῖναι γὰρ αὐτοῖς, have leisure to go.

2. Or, omitting κακῶς ἔφη with Stobaeus, he does it in spite of want of leisure.

Xenophon Memorabilia 3.9.9

Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator)

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