Texte grec :
| [12,15] ὅμως δὲ προλέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι ἐσπουδάκατε ἀνδρὸς ἀκοῦσαι
τοσοῦτον πλῆθος ὄντες οὔτε καλοῦ τὸ εἶδος οὔτε ἰσχυροῦ, τῇ τε
ἡλικίᾳ παρηκμακότος ἤδη, μαθητὴν δὲ οὐδένα ἔχοντος, τέχνην δὲ
ἢ ἐπιστήμην οὐδεμίαν ὑπισχνουμένου σχεδὸν οὔτε τῶν σεμνῶν
οὔτε τῶν ἐλαττόνων, οὔτε μαντικὴν οὔτε σοφιστικὴν ἀλλ´ οὐδὲ
ῥητορικήν τινα ἢ κολακευτικὴν δύναμιν, οὐδὲ δεινοῦ ξυγγράφειν
οὐδὲ ἔργον τι ἔχοντος ἄξιον ἐπαίνου καὶ σπουδῆς, ἀλλ´ ἢ μόνον
κομῶντος· εἰ δ´ ὑμῖν δοκέει τόδε λωίτερον καὶ ἄμεινον,
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Traduction française :
| [12,15] But notwithstanding, I declare to you that, great as is
your number, you have been eager to hear a man who
is neither handsome in appearance nor strong, and
in age is already past his prime, one who has no
disciple, who professes, I may almost say, no art
or special knowledge either of the nobler or of the
meaner sort, no ability either as a prophet or a
sophist, nay, not even as an orator or as a flatterer,
one who is not even a clever writer, who does not
even have a craft deserving of praise or of interest,
but who simply—wears his hair long !
But if you think it a better and wiser course,
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