Letter 288
To the Same Person.
You ask me why I have called affection toward one's own kind a dog. For this affection is a dog that, raging like a mad creature, often tears to pieces all savagery, and all wickedness, and hardness, and haughtiness, and the refusal to share. Love toward human beings, then, is a dog that deserves no blame, but rather praise.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἐρωτᾷς με, διὰ τί κύνα κέκληκα τὴν στοργὴν πρὸς τὸ ὁμόφυλον. Κύων γάρ ἐστιν αὕτη μανικῶς σπαράττουσα πολλάκις πᾶσαν ὠμότητα, καὶ πᾶσαν πονηρίαν, σκληρότητά τε, καὶ ὑψαυχενίαν, καὶ ἀμεταδοσίαν. Κύων τοίνυν οὐ ψεκτός, ἐπαινετὸς δὲ μᾶλλον ἡ πρὸς ἀνθρώπους ἀγάπη.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
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