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‘διὰ τί τὸν τῆς Ὅρτας ναὸν ἀνεῳγμένον εἶχον οἱ παλαιοὶ διὰ παντός;’
πότερον, ὡς Ἀντίστιος Λαβεὼν ἱστόρηκε, τοῦ
[p. 78] παρορμᾶν ‘ὁρτάρι’ λεγομένου, τὴν οἷον ἐγκελευομένην πρὸς τὰ καλὰ καὶ παρορμῶσαν θεὸν Ὅρταν λεγομένην ᾤοντο δεῖν ὡς ἐνεργὸν ἀεὶ μηδέποτε μέλλειν μηδ᾽ ἀποκεκλεῖσθαι μηδ᾽
ἐλινύειν;
ἢ μᾶλλον ὡς νῦν ὀνομάζουσιν αὐτὴν Ὥραν
μηκυνομένης τῆς προτέρας συλλαβῆς, ἐπιστρεφῆ
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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