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μοι δοκεῖ τὸ ‘λυσιτελοῦν,’ ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι τάχιστον ὂν τοῦ ὄντος ἵστασθαι οὐκ ἐᾷ τὰ πράγματα, οὐδὲ τέλος λαβοῦσαν τὴν φορὰν τοῦ φέρεσθαι στῆναί τε καὶ παύσασθαι, ἀλλ᾽ ἀεὶ λύει αὐτῆς ἄν τι ἐπιχειρῇ τέλος ἐγγίγνεσθαι, καὶ παρέχει ἄπαυστον καὶ ἀθάνατον αὐτήν, ταύτῃ μοι δοκεῖ ἐπιφημίσαι τὸ ἀγαθὸν λυσιτελοῦν: τὸ γὰρ τῆς φορᾶς λύον τὸ τέλος ‘λυσιτελοῦν’ καλέσαι. ‘ὠφέλιμον’ δὲ ξενικὸν τοὔνομα, ᾧ καὶ Ὅμηρος πολλαχοῦ κέχρηται, τῷ ‘ὀφέλλειν’: ἔστι δὲ τοῦτο τοῦ αὔξειν καὶ †ποιεῖν ἐπωνυμία.
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Plato. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet. Oxford University Press. 1903.
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