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‘αὐταί γε
ἡμεῖς,’ εἶπεν, ‘ὦ
Οὐολουμνία, καὶ σύ, Οὐεργιλία, γυναῖκες ἥκομεν πρὸς γυναῖκας, οὔτε βουλῆς ψηφισαμένης οὔτ᾽ ἄρχοντος κελεύσαντος, ἀλλ᾽ ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν, ὡς ἔοικεν, οἰκτείρας τὴν ἱκετείαν, ὁρμὴν παρέστησε δευρὶ τραπέσθαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς καὶ δεηθῆναι σωτηρίαν μὲν αὑταῖς καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις πολίταις, ὑμῖν δὲ πεισθείσαις ἐπιφανεστέραν φέροντα δόξαν ἧς αἱ Σαβίνων θυγατέρες ἔσχον, εἰς φιλίαν καὶ εἰρήνην ἐκ πολέμων συναγαγοῦσαι πατέρας καὶ
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Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 4.
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