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τοῦ δὲ Μενύλλου δωρεὰν αὐτῷ καὶ χρήματα διδόντος, ἀπεκρίνατο μήτ᾽ ἐκεῖνον Ἀλεξάνδρου βελτίονα εἶναι μήτε κρείττονα τὴν αἰτίαν ἐφ᾽ ᾗ λήψεται νῦν ὁ τότε μὴ δεξάμενος. ἀλλὰ Φώκῳ γε τῷ παιδὶ λαβεῖν δεομένου τοῦ Μενύλλου, ‘Φώκῳ μὲν,’
εἶπεν, ‘ἐὰν μὲν σωφρονῇ μεταβαλόμενος, ἀρκέσει τὰ τοῦ πατρός: ὡς δ᾽ ἔχει νῦν, οὐδὲν ἱκανόν ἐστιν.’ Ἀντιπάτρῳ δὲ τραχύτερον ἀπεκρίνατο βουλομένῳ τι γενέσθαι δι᾽ αὐτοῦ τῶν μὴ πρεπόντων ‘οὐ δύναται γὰρ,’ εἶπεν, ‘Ἀντίπατρος ἅμα μοι καὶ φίλῳ καὶ κόλακι χρῆσθαι.’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 8.
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