α2252Ἀνέλπιστον βίον
hope-free life, hopeless life
Attic [writers] have said that [a hope-free life is] finest, [one] in which they are not excited into hopes; rather, the good things are already there.
Ἀνέλπιστον βίον· τὸν κάλλιστον εἰρήκασιν Ἀττικοί, ἐν ᾧ οὐκ εἰς ἐλπίδας ἐπτόηνται, ἀλλὰ πάρεστιν ἤδη τὰ ἀγαθά.