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χρυσίον μὲν πολὺ διδόντος οὐκ ἔλαβε: τῇ δ᾽ ὑστεραίᾳ τὸν μέγιστον ἐλέφαντα τοῦ Πύρρου παρασκευάσαντος ἐξόπισθεν ἀγνοοῦντι τῷ Φαβρικίῳ ῥήξαντα φωνὴν ἐπιφανῆναι: καὶ τούτου γενομένου, ἐπιστραφεὶς ὁ Φαβρίκιος καὶ μειδιάσας, ‘ἐμέ,’ εἶπεν, ‘οὔτε τὸ χρυσίον ἐχθὲς οὔτε σήμερον τὸ θηρίον ἐξέπληξε.’
τοῦ δὲ Πύρρου παρακαλοῦντος αὐτὸν εἶναι σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν μετ᾽ αὐτὸν ἔχειν ἡγεμονίαν, ‘οὐδὲ σοί,’ ἔφη, ‘τοῦτο λυσιτελές ἐστιν: Ἠπειρῶται γάρ, ἐὰν ἀμφοτέρους γνῶσιν ἡμᾶς, ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ βασιλεύεσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ σοῦ ἐθελήσουσιν.’
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Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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