MED. 9.26Discipline of assent
George Long · 1862EN · Long

Thou hast endured infinite troubles through not being contented with thy TERMruling faculty, when it does the things which it is constituted by nature to do. But enough of this.

Original · ancient Greek

Ἀνέτλης μύρια διὰ τὸ μὴ ἀρκεῖσθαι τῷ σῷ ἡγεμονικῷ ποιοῦντι ταῦτα, οἷα κατεσκεύασται. ἀλλὰ ἅλις.

Leopold · Teubner 1908
Commentary

Enough. A short rebuke to oneself: "you have endured countless (μύρια) troubles — through not being content (μὴ ἀρκεῖσθαι) with your TERMruling faculty doing the very things it was constituted (κατεσκεύασται) to do." The source of suffering is not circumstance but resistance to one's own nature: when the ἡγεμονικόν does its own work (judging and acting by reason), that is DOGMAenough; the torment comes from wanting something else (cf. 9.6 — the present judgement, action, and disposition are "enough").

The break-off. "ἀλλὰ ἅλις" — "but enough" — is not a conclusion but an act of will: to stop chewing over the fault and return to the task. The very memory that the troubles were self-inflicted already frees. The governing discipline is assent.

DisciplineDiscipline of assent
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Discipline of assent

George Long · 1862· EN · Long

Thou hast endured infinite troubles through not being contented with thy TERMruling faculty, when it does the things which it is constituted by nature to do. But enough of this.

Original · ancient Greek

Ἀνέτλης μύρια διὰ τὸ μὴ ἀρκεῖσθαι τῷ σῷ ἡγεμονικῷ ποιοῦντι ταῦτα, οἷα κατεσκεύασται. ἀλλὰ ἅλις.

Leopold · Teubner 1908
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Commentary

Enough. A short rebuke to oneself: "you have endured countless (μύρια) troubles — through not being content (μὴ ἀρκεῖσθαι) with your TERMruling faculty doing the very things it was constituted (κατεσκεύασται) to do." The source of suffering is not circumstance but resistance to one's own nature: when the ἡγεμονικόν does its own work (judging and acting by reason), that is DOGMAenough; the torment comes from wanting something else (cf. 9.6 — the present judgement, action, and disposition are "enough").

The break-off. "ἀλλὰ ἅλις" — "but enough" — is not a conclusion but an act of will: to stop chewing over the fault and return to the task. The very memory that the troubles were self-inflicted already frees. The governing discipline is assent.

DisciplineDiscipline of assent
Record added2026-07-16
Statuspublished