<div class="gmail_quote">2011/7/26 Dan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan_ust@yahoo.com">dan_ust@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Wouldn't Aristotle have been using Greek -- not Latin? :)</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div>
<br>In fact, it is Francis Bacon, not Aristotle, even though the latter actually says something on those lines in the Ethica Nicomacaea. But Plato himself writes something on those lines, referring to... Socrates, in <i>Phaedon</i>, 91b-c:<br>
<br>"ὑμεῖς μÎντοι, ἂν á¼Î¼Î¿á½¶ πείθησθε, σμικÏὸν φÏοντίσαντες ΣωκÏάτους, τῆς δὲ
ἀληθείας πολὺ μᾶλλον, á¼á½°Î½ μÎν τι ὑμῖν δοκῶ ἀληθὲς λÎγειν,
συνομολογήσατε, εἰ δὲ μή, παντὶ λόγῳ ἀντιτείνετε, εá½Î»Î±Î²Î¿Ïμενοι ὅπως μὴ
á¼Î³á½¼ ὑπὸ Ï€Ïοθυμίας ἅμα á¼Î¼Î±Ï…τόν τε καὶ ὑμᾶς á¼Î¾Î±Ï€Î±Ï„ήσας, á½¥ÏƒÏ€ÎµÏ Î¼Îλιττα τὸ
κÎντÏον á¼Î³ÎºÎ±Ï„αλιπὼν οἰχήσομαι."<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>