You are at Delphi, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, at the temple of Apollo. In Plato's Protagoras, Socrates says the seven wise men of old wrote two sayings in this temple, “which are on every tongue”. Plato names this one first.
Socrates calls this short, memorable style of the old sages Spartan, “laconic brevity”.
This lesson takes for granted the lessons before it. Not done yet: 1 Nothing in excess.
Forgot how a letter is read? The whole alphabet
Sound out each word, letter by letter, then clicktap it to check yourself. These are the letters it uses: clicktap one to see how it sounds.