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Τί ὕπνος; Καμάτων ἀνάπαυσις, ἰατρῶν κατόρθωμα, δεδεμένων λύσις, ἀγρυπνούντων σοφία, νοσούντων εὐχή, θανάτου εἰκών, ταλαιπωρούντων ἐπιθυμία, πάσης πνοῆς ἡσυχία, πλουσίων ἐπιτήδευμα, πενήτων ἀδολεσχία, καθημερινὴ μελέτη. –> What is sleep? Rest from toil, the success of physicians, the release of those who are bound, the wisdom of the wakeful, what sick men pray for, an image of death, the desire of those who toil in hardship, the rest of all the spirit, a principal occupation of the rich, the idle chatter of poor men, a daily object of concern.

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οἰκτίστῳ θανάτῳ εἵμαρτο ἁλῶναι → it was fated that you would be taken by the most miserable death, it has been decreed that thou shouldst be cut off by a most piteous death

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ποιητὴς, ὁπόταν ἐν τῷ τρίποδι τῆς Μούσης καθίζηται, τότε οὐκ ἔμφρων ἐστίν –> whenever a poet is seated on the Muses' tripod, he is not in his senses

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ἀγνώστως ἀνατάθητι → strive upwards unknowingly, unknowingly strive upward

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θεωρεῖται δὲ ἀνοησίᾳ κρείττονι νοήσεως → it is grasped only by means of an ignorance superior to intellection, it may be immediately cognised only by means of a non-intellection superior to intellection

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χελῶναι μακάριαι τοῦ δέρματος → you tortoises are fortunate in your skin, you blessed turtles with your shell

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ὁ γὰρ πόνος ὁ ὑπερβάλλων συνάψει θανάτῳ → excessive suffering will soon lead you to death

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οὐ γὰρ αὐθάδης οὐδ' ἐπαχθής ὁ χρηστός, οὐδ' αὐθέκαστος ἐστιν ὁ σώφρων ἀνήρ –> the man of value is not arrogant or insufferable, and the wise man is not a smug

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τὸ ζῷον τοῦτο οὐ μονῆρες καὶ αὐθέκαστον, ἀλλὰ κοινωνικὸν καὶ πολιτικόν –> this animal is not solitary and self-sufficient, but social and political

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οὐκ ἔστ' ἀλώπηξ ἡ μὲν εἴρων τῇ φύσει ἡ δ' αὐθέκαστος → foxes are not one of a treacherous nature and the other straightforward, the nature of foxes is not for one to be treacherous and the other straightforward

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ἀεὶ γὰρ πονεῖ τὸ ζῷον → a living being is always experiencing suffering, this is because a state of strain is the normal condition of an animal organism, for the animal is always toiling

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ἐυκτίμενον πτολίεθρον → well-built citadel

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ἐν τῷ ῥά σφι κύκησε γυνὴ εἰκυῖα θεῆισιν οἴνῳ Πραμνείῳ, ἐπὶ δ' αἴγειον κνῆ τυρόν κνήστι χαλκείῃ, ἐπὶ δ' ἄλφιτα λευκὰ πάλυνε. –> In it the woman, like the goddesses, mixed Pramnian wine for them, and over it she grated goat cheese with a bronze grater, and sprinkled white barley on it.

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Ὥσπερ οἱ ἐρωτικοὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν αἰσθήσει καλῶν ὁδῷ προϊόντες ἐπ' αὐτὴν καταντῶσι τὴν μίαν τῶν καλῶν πάντων καὶ νοητῶν ἀρχήν –> Just as lovers systematically leave behind what is fair to sensation and attain the one true source of all that is fair and intelligible

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οὐράνιον ὅσον → as high as heaven, as great as heaven

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ἄμεινον γὰρ ἑαυτῷ φυλάττειν τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τοῦ ἑτέρων ἀφαιρεῖσθαι → for it is better to guard one's own freedom than to deprive another of his

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γυνὴ γὰρ οὐδὲν οἶδε πλὴν ὃ βούλεται → women know nothing except from what they want

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αὐτίκα καὶ φυτὰ δῆλα ἃ μέλλει κάρπιμ' ἔσεσθαι → fruitful plants show it straightaway

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ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι –> go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie | go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, that here obedient to their words we lie

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κάμψαι διαύλου θάτερον κῶλον πάλιν → bend back along the second turn of the race, turning the bend and coming back for the second leg of the double run, run the homeward course, retrace one's steps

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