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‘ δ᾽ ἄστεων τῶν περὶ Ἐλεφαντίνην ἀποστῆναι. σκεψάμενος οὖν εὐθὺς ἀπόπεμπε Νειλόξενον. ἃ δὲ δεῖ φίλοις σοῖς ἢ πολίταις γενέσθαι παρ᾽ ἡμῶν οὐ τἀμὰ κωλύσει.'’ Τούτων ἀναγνωσθέντων οὐ πολὺν χρόνον ἐπισχὼν ὁ Βίας, ἀλλὰ μικρὰ μὲν αὐτὸς πρὸς αὑτῷ γενόμενος μικρὰ δὲ τῷ Κλεοβούλῳ προσομιλήσας ἐγγὺς κατακειμένῳ ‘τί λέγεις’ εἶπεν ὦ ‘Ναυκρατῖτα; βασιλεύων ἀνθρώπων τοσούτων Ἄμασις, κεκτημένος δὲ χώραν ἀρίστην τοσαύτην ἐθελήσει 1 ἐπὶ κώμαις ἀδόξοις καὶ λυπραῖς ἐκπιεῖν θάλασσαν;᾽’ Καὶ ὁ Νειλόξενος γελάσας ‘ὡς θελήσοντος’ 2 εἶπεν ‘ὦ Βία σκόπει ’
2 θελήσοντος Pflugkius: θελήσαντος
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1888. 1.
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