Texte grec :
| [10,10] τὸ δὲ πάντων γελοιότατον· ἐνίοτε ἀποροῦσι διακόνων
μᾶλλον τῶν πενήτων τε καὶ οὐκ ἐχόντων οὐδένα
οἰκέτην. καὶ ἔστι τὸ πρᾶγμα ὅμοιον τοῖς ἰούλοις· οἶμαι γάρ σε
εἰδέναι· καὶ γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι μυρίους πόδας ἔχοντες βραδύτατοί εἰσι
τῶν ἑρπετῶν. οὐκ οἶσθα ὅτι τὸ σῶμα ἡ φύσις ἑκάστῳ ἐποίησεν
ἱκανὸν εἶναι πρὸς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ θεραπείαν; πόδας μέν, ὥστε ἀπιέναι,
χεῖρας δέ, ὥστε ἐργάζεσθαι καὶ τοῦ ἄλλου σώματος ἐπιμελεῖσθαι,
ὀφθαλμοὺς δέ, ὥστε ὁρᾶν, ὦτα δέ, ὥστε ἀκούειν.
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Traduction française :
| [10,10] And the most absurd thing of all is that they are
often worse off for help than are the poor who keep
no servants. Their situation reminds one of the
centipede—I think you know it—which has innumerable
feet and yet it is the slowest of creeping things.
Do you not know that nature has made each man's
body to be sufficient to serve him ?—feet so as to
move about, hands to work with and to care for the
rest of the body, eyes to see, and ears to hear.
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