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‘ [4] ὅθεν αὐτῷ καὶ τὸ σῶμα διάκειται κακῶς, καὶ τοῖς φίλοις οὐ προσηνὴς οὐδὲ ἡδύς ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτους προσαποβέβληκε τοῖς χρήμασι πολιτευόμενος. οἱ δ᾽ ἄλλοι καὶ φίλους κτώμενοι καὶ πλουτίζοντες αὑτοὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ βήματος εὐπαθοῦσι καὶ προσπαίζουσι τῇ πολιτείᾳ.’ τῷ δ᾽ ὄντι τοιοῦτος ἦν ὁ Νικίου βίος ὥστ᾽ αὐτὸν εἰπεῖν τὰ τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονος εἰς αὑτόν:

προστάτην γε τοῦ βίου
τὸν ὄγκον ἔχομεν, τῷ τ᾽ ὄχλῳ δουλεύομεν.1

Eur. IA 445 f.

1 Euripides, Iphigeneia at Aulis, 445 f. (Kirchhoff), where the MSS. have προστάτην γε, τὸν δῆμον, τῷ τ᾽ ὔχλῳ. The MSS. of Plutarch have προστάτην δέ, τὸν ὄγκον, τῷ δ᾽ ὄχλῳ.

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.

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