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Aussprüche Dionysios' II. #2 (226 Aufrufe)
Γραικύλος schrieb am 16.08.2026 um 00:09 Uhr (Zitieren)
Plutarch, Aussprüche von Königen und Feldherren (Moralia 176 C-E):
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On being asked how his father, who was a poor man and a private citizen, had gained control over the Syracusans, and how he, who held control, and was the son of a despot, had come to lose it, he said, “My father embarked upon his venture at a time when democracy was hated, but I at a time when despotism was odious [ὁ μὲν πατήρ, ἔφη, μισουμένης δημοκρατίας ἐνέπεσε τοῖς πράγμασιν, ἐγὼ δὲ φθονουμένης τυραννίδος].”


5. Being asked this same question by another man, he said, “My father bequeathed to me his kingdom, but not his luck [ὁ πατήρ, ἔφη, μοι τὴν τυραννίδα τὴν ἑαυτοῦ κατέλιπεν, οὐ τὴν τύχην].”

Vgl. Aelian, Varia Historia XII 60:

Dionysius II. and Philip son of Amyntas (1) met one day. Naturally there was a long and flowing conversation, and it included the following exchange. Philip asked Dionysius how it was having inherited such a powerful state from his father he had not maintained it. The other replied, not without point: “My father left me everything else, but not the luck by which he obtained those possessions and kept them.”

[Plutarch: Moralia III. Ed. by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge (Mass.)/London 72004, pp. 34-37]

(1) Philipp II. von Makedonien, der Vater Alexanders des Großen
 
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