Solon 15 W. (= 6 G.-P.)

<= 6 G.-P.) - includes four lines of Solon's elegance snipped in the Life of Solon Plutarch and in Moral. virt. 6; De inim. until. 11; De tranqu. animi 13]. He was included in Theognidea (135-138). Metrum is a distant elegy.

The fragment is a frequent warning in the archaic gnomes against dishonest gaining wealth - Solon has repeatedly referred to this subject in his work. 4 W., 6 W., 13 W.] Although the passage is constructed as a personal declaration, its content is a general thought. She proclaims that the measure of man is not wealth. Solon's words often used for their timelessness, later authors such as Stobajos [3.1.8] and St. Basil the Great [Ad adul. 5.45]. Solon points out that among the moral values ​​the highest place is occupied by the areté, which as the eternal nobility of the spirit opposes the material goods. He says that at the same time rich and evil people are numerous, in contrast to the few good people who suffer from it. But it does not make generalization that all evil are rich, and all good are poor - contradicts such interpretation many other preserved fragments of his work - and condemns only the ways of acquiring wealth contrary to the ethical ideal of areté. It should also be noted that in the ethics of the archaic period, the notion of virtue was closely related to the notion of wealth - Solon does not condemn the possession of wealth alone, but merely distorts the natural order of the world, which is the rupture of the relationship between heroic virtues and wealth, the pursuit of profit. a stranger to the aristocratic ideal.

In the word ἔμπεδον ("fixed", "permanent"), the poet defines spiritual values ​​opposed to material values. In the 13th verse, it defines the same adjective as material value, but in terms of the richness of the data from the gods, and thus acquired honestly and inexpressibly in that sense. In essence, a tautological thing is referred to in verse 15 W. It is most likely that material goods can not be stopped after death, but virtue can be - Solon's conviction confirms the 24th passage.

The words κακοί and ἀγαθοί used in the text are primarily ethical, but it should be remembered that for the Greek aristocracy they also meant ancestry, ie good and badly born. Probably just because of Solon's use of elements of the conceptual apparatus of the ethics of the Greek aristocracy, the text was incorporated into Theognidei, which is a collection of works characteristic of her mentality. In the context of Theognidei, however, there is a shift in the pronunciation of the work, which consists in narrowing the meaning of the concepts used from general to typical of aristocratic ethics. Bibliography

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