Texte grec :
| [12,12] ταῦτα δὲ ὑμῖν ἐναντίον τοῦδε τοῦ θεοῦ προλέγω
καὶ ξυμβουλεύω δι´ εὔνοιαν καὶ φιλίαν προαγόμενος.
οἶμαι δὲ ἐμαυτὸν ἂν πρῶτον πείθειν καὶ παρακαλεῖν, εἴ μοι τὰ τοῦ σώματος καὶ
τὰ τῆς ἡλικίας ἐπεδέχετο· ἀλλὰ
γὰρ ἀνάγκη διὰ τὸ {κακοπαθεῖν}, εἴ πού τι δυνησόμεθα εὑρέσθαι
παρὰ τῶν παλαιῶν ἀνδρῶν ὥσπερ ἀπερριμμένον ἤδη καὶ ἕωλον
σοφίας λείψανον χήτει τῶν κρειττόνων τε καὶ ζώντων διδασκάλων.
ἐρῶ δὲ ὑμῖν καὶ ἄλλο, ὃ πέπονθα τῇ γλαυκὶ παραπλήσιον, ἐὰν καὶ
βούλησθε καταγελᾶν τῶν λόγων.
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Traduction française :
| [12,12] This is the prophecy and counsel that I give you in
the presence of yonder god, moved by a spirit of
goodwill and friendship toward you. And I suppose
that it would be my duty to urge and exhort myself
first of all, if only the state of my health and my
advanced age permitted, but the fact is that, on
account of the infirmities which afflict me, I am under
the necessity, if perchance I shall find it in any way
possible, of discovering some bit of wisdom which
has already been from the ancients cast aside as it
were, and had grown stale for lack of teachers who
are both better and still living.
And I shall tell you of another respect too in
which I am like the owl, even if you are ready to
laugh at my words.
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