Περὶ τῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ θείου βραδέως τιμωρουμένων

Lines

1 – 1 2 – 2 3 – 3 4 – 4 5 – 5 6 – 6 6 – 6 6 – 6 7 – 7 8 – 8 9 – 9 9 – 9 9 – 9 10 – 10 11 – 11 12 – 12 12 – 12 12 – 12 13 – 13 14 – 14 15 – 15 16 – 16 17 – 17 17 – 17 18 – 18 19 – 19 20 – 20 21 – 21 22 – 22 23 – 23 23 – 23 24 – 24 25 – 25 25 – 26 26 – 26 27 – 27 27 – 27 28 – 29 29 – 29 30 – 30 30 – 30 30 – 30 31 – 31 32 – 33

Yunanca Yunanca

9 These things I have alleged, as it was but reason, upon a supposition that there is a forbearance of inflicting punishment upon the wicked. As for what remains, it behooves us to listen to Hesiod, where he asserts,—not like Plato, that punishment is a suffering which accompanies injustice,—but that it is of the same age with it, and arises from the same place and root. For, says he, Bad counsel, so the Gods ordain, Is most of all the adviser’s bane. And in another place, He that his neighbor’s harm contrives, his art Contrives the mischief ’gainst his own false heart.Hesiod, Works and Days, 265.