Enchiridion [Sentence 011]

Enchiridion

Sentence 011

Text and Analysis

02.01.029
ἂν
ἐάν
conjunction
-
if
02.01.030
μὲν
μέν
particle
-
-
02.01.031
οὖν
οὖν
particle
-
then
02.01.032
μόνα
μόνος
adjective
SPN
only
02.01.033
ἐκκλίνῃς
ἐκκλίνω
verb
PAS.2S
you avoid
02.01.034
τὰ
article
SPN
the things
02.01.035
παρὰ
παρά
preposition
-
aside from
02.01.036
φύσιν
φύσις
noun
ASF
nature
02.01.037
τῶν
article
GPX
that are
02.01.038
ἐπὶ
ἐπί
preposition
-
on
02.01.039
σοί,
σύ
pronoun
DS-
you
02.01.040
οὐδενί,
οὐδείς
pronoun
DS-
none [of those]
02.01.041
ὧν
ὅς
pronoun
GPX
which
02.01.042
ἐκκλίνεις,
ἐκκλίνω
verb
PAI.2S
you avoid
02.01.043
περιπεσῇ:
περιπίπτω
verb
FMI.2S
you will embrace

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Translations

If, then, you confine your aversion to those objects only which are contrary to the natural use of your faculties, which you have in your own control, you will never incur anything to which you are averse.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
If, then, you shun only those undesirable things which you can control, you will never incur anything which you shun;Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
If then you attempt to avoid only the things contrary to nature which are within your power, you will not be involved in any of the things which you would avoid.George Long (1890)
If then you try to avoid only what is unnatural in the region within your control, you will escape from all that you avoid;Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)